Cattle Market

Once a person lives in a city, this person has great chances of increase social interactions. Public spaces are the plan where such interactions take place. Mumford (ANO), associated constantly the life inside the cities with a play in a theatre, aiming to understand the influence of physical space on human relations. Moreover, the author affirmed that “the physical organization of the city may delete this drama or make it frustrate; or it may, though deliberate effort of art, politics, and education, make the drama richly significant, as a stage-set, well-designed, intensifies and underlines the gestures of the actors and the action of the play”. Therefore, the city itself assumes a major role on the development of social associations. Further,

However, due to the disapproval of salesmen and traders about the conditions of the area, the Corporation decided to repair the space where the market was located. Nevertheless, later investments on the local led the transference of the Pig Market from Smithfield to the Cattle Market, which caused a significant depreciation on the value of the land. Eventually the limits of Smithfield were set out by the Markets Committee to include Smithfield, North Kind-street, Red-cow Lane, New Church Street, Haymarket, Arran-street, Phoenix-street, Bow-street, May-lane, Queen-street and Hendrick-street. Also, the Bow Street Distillery that belonged to Mrs. John Jameson and son, bargained a small piece of land with Smithfield proposing the construction of a warehouse on the edges of the local. As a result of this expansion, the City Surveyor developed a plan of improvements for the area. Finally, in 1896, a new and refurbished market was reopened. Following the renovations, the market obtained a license for a Horse Fair, that happens until the recent

Moreover, the modern city has an urgent requirement of innovate itself to attend the new aspects of the current life. The traditional urban space shows a highly connected mass, “which define ‘streets’ and ‘squares’ and a small-scale, (…) building are generally low-rise and of a similar height”. In contrast, the new urban space is characterized by an inorganic scale where “the building are set within a ‘super block’ system” that create distances in the space that are unsuitable for the human use. With this in mind, the “appreciation of morphology helps urban designers to be aware of local patters of development and processes of