KICK, CHAN_Project 1 Description
RESEARCH STATEMENT – (What, who, and why)
What: Restaurant in Old Town Chinatown, Portland (race, store revenue, ability to survive this past September because of the hazards)
Who: Store owners
Why: Adaptability of the restaurants – would wealth and race be preventing them from surviving hazards/crisis/natural disasters?
RESEARCH PARAGRAPH –
We will be measuring the adaptability of restaurants in the Old Town Chinatown, Portland area. The focus will be on whether or not restaurants in this area have outdoor seating and their indoor spaces are equipped with HEPA filters. Our main question is would wealth and race be preventing restaurant owners from surviving the hazards, specifically with COVID-19 and the wildfire in September? This inquiry is important because it raises the concern that underrepresented community members, and their businesses, may be at a disadvantage when experiencing catastrophic events.
In order to show both scale and time, we are proposing to focus on the month of September in 2020. This will give a clear comparison of before, during, and after the wildfire smoke pollution and the continuing negative impacts of COVID-19 on the local restaurant businesses. For scale, we have chosen to focus on the businesses within the area of NW Broadway, NW Glisan St., NW 2nd Ave., and W Burnside St (5×5 city blocks).
Methods + Data Dictionary –
RESOURCE ARTICLES –
- Spatial Strategies for Restaurants in Response to COVID-19
- Can Outdoor Dining Save America’s Restaurants?
- Outdoor dining “last chance” for many restaurants says Ben Masterton-Smith
INFOGRAPHICS –
Videos Clips – (news of Portland + outdoor dining)
CITATIONS OF THEORIES –
- “Urban data can be connected to constituting elements of public spaces to transform such spaces into interaction fields where social interaction is mediated by digitally enhanced artefacts installed in the public realm and where behaviour is accordingly informed by urban data.” – Nabian, N., Offenhuber, D., Vanky A., and Ratti, C. (2013) “Data dimension: accessing urban data and making it accessible.” Proceedings of the ICE – Urban Design and Planning 166, no. 1: 60-75.
- “Data are values that are easy to find in urban space, and could then be transformed into visible social patterns that could eventually assist urban designs as architects digest the information and apply it into designs for the best human experience possible.” – Carina Chan’s 1.2 Reading summary.
- “…by utilizing parametric methods to understand spaces students can more successfully incorporate qualitative and quantitative data into their research. Ultimately, they can have a better comprehensive understanding of their project sites.” – Anna Kick’s 1.2 Reading summary.
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION PRECEDENTS –
Hypothesis –
In the event of smoke, like what occurred in September 2020, restaurant owners in Oldtown Chinatown earned less revenue due to limited financial freedom and therefore difficulties adapting to the situations and ultimately survival.
Important Factors that Plays a Part in the Research –
- Average the daily temperatures for the month of September
- Rain vs. sun days for the month
- Timeline weather advisory / air quality order from the city mayor
- Multnomah County has closed almost all buildings and offices for Sept. 14-18. Some health centers, the District Attorney’s Office and the Courts are open. Essential and teleworking employees work as usual. (https://multco.us/air-quality-public-health-problem/september-2020-wildfire-threat-multnomah-county)
- States / timeline on the smog issues (when / how much?)
- Portland’s phase 1 policy for seating quantities
Good background information.
More visual drawings.
Zoom way in.
Make a clearer relationship about the air quality and the shop.
Good to look at Covid period.