Queen St currently has a lot of mixed use already, including retail, commerical, hospitality and transport. The only main characteristic which it is missing is residential. By including residential in this area, the need for these people to travel to places causing congestion is ultimately reduced. Not dramatically but it is one step we could take.
Retail in 2050?? Who knows where retail will be at in the year 2050. Currently online shopping is beginning to surpass physical shops in one respect. That is sales, however consumers still prefer to have some sort of physical presence when it comes to finding things to purchase. How do we address this in 2050?
There could be two main possibilities that happen:
1. Trying to retain the experience of shopping in stores and malls.
2. Online shopping continues to develop potentially reducing or removing retail from a region.
Queen Street currently only operates 12 hours a day. In comparison to Fortitude Valley, Queen Street runs during the day, and Fortitude Valley runs through the night. With the adoption of mixed use no place goes deserted for any period of time. This issue goes in conjunction with urban sprawl. Creating 1 space for 2 uses. Rather than 2 spaces for 2 uses.
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