Chapter 02

Toolkit

The islands, measured.

This chapter moves from the whole island to one walkable area on each. It begins with the area each group chose, why, and the problems found by walking it.

It then sets out the shared toolkit: six field instruments, drawn from three texts on public life and used in the same way on all three islands. What they recorded is read as five themes, each shown island by island and then compared. The chapter closes with what we found, and what each masterplan in Chapter 03 has to answer.

Sections of chapter 02
Section	Malé	Villimalé	Hulhumalé	Compare
2.1Site selection and diagnosis	Malé: Site selection and diagnosis	Villimalé: Site selection and diagnosis	Hulhumalé: Site selection and diagnosis	Compare: Site selection and diagnosis
2.2The toolkit	All three islands
2.3Theme 1: Roads are made for movement, not staying	Malé: Theme 1: Roads are made for movement, not staying	Villimalé: Theme 1: Roads are made for movement, not staying	Hulhumalé: Theme 1: Roads are made for movement, not staying	Compare: Theme 1: Roads are made for movement, not staying
2.4Theme 2: Shade dictates movement, not distance	Malé: Theme 2: Shade dictates movement, not distance	Villimalé: Theme 2: Shade dictates movement, not distance	Hulhumalé: Theme 2: Shade dictates movement, not distance	Compare: Theme 2: Shade dictates movement, not distance
2.5Theme 3: Built form vs public life	Malé: Theme 3: Built form vs public life	Villimalé: Theme 3: Built form vs public life	Hulhumalé: Theme 3: Built form vs public life	Compare: Theme 3: Built form vs public life
2.6Theme 4: Density is not the problem, poor design is	Malé: Theme 4: Density is not the problem, poor design is	Villimalé: Theme 4: Density is not the problem, poor design is	Hulhumalé: Theme 4: Density is not the problem, poor design is	Compare: Theme 4: Density is not the problem, poor design is
2.7Theme 5: Vehicles take more open space	Malé: Theme 5: Vehicles take more open space	Villimalé: Theme 5: Vehicles take more open space	Hulhumalé: Theme 5: Vehicles take more open space	Compare: Theme 5: Vehicles take more open space
2.8What we found	All three islands