Human gathering techniques assessment:

1. Urban land use mapping is a suitable technique to assess

different land use types in an urban environment like Main
Street in Cumbernauld Village. ULUM involves surveying and
categorising urban land use with the output being a colored
map with a key which shows the types and intensities of land
use in an area.
2. Preparation:
- Decide on the area for the study.
- Decide on the sampling strategy.
- Decide whether to survey both sides of the road.
- Decide whether land use is recorded at ground level only or
at upper floors of the buildings too.
- Have a suitable scale OS map while surveying.
- Note down street names.
Gathering data:
- Produce a base map including appropriate classification eg
RICEPOTS.
- Visit the site and record the land use (photos and sketches
may enhance the base map).
- Color code the base map to show variations in building
height.
Following up:
- Use all the gathered data to draw a land use map, color
coding and annotating as appropriate. The map must contain
north points, a scale, title and a key. It can be used to
calculate percentages of different land uses.