Before our neighborhood analysis, I’ve never taken the time out to analyze or pay attention to what’s going on in my neighborhood. After carefully analyzing my neighborhood I suddenly realized that there is a lot of history in my neighborhood. Port Richmond is one of the oldest districts on Staten Island, there are local businesses that have been passed down from generation to generation, there are also a few landmark buildings that are currently going through restoration. I’ve also noticed the zoning hasn’t changed much either. I think the reason why most of these local businesses have been able to do so well is because of the relationship between local business owners and consumers in my neighborhood. I’ve witnessed conversations between owners and consumers last for five to seven mins from asking about their wife and kids or asking about their parents and grandparents. From our previous lectures, we spoke about gentrification, how it changes a neighborhood and the impact it has on a neighborhood, because my neighborhood is a preserved neighborhood if the zoning was supposed to be changed and investors were able to build higher and bigger without the consideration of locally owned businesses, I think I would lose a very important part of my neighborhood, it would not be the same.
Category: Neighborhood Analysis
As an Architecture student, we always have a site analysis assignment before we do the architect design. Our first assignment Neighborhood analysis is similar to site analysis, both assignments need so the research of the history of the place we visit. However, if the site analysis is focused on the specific place, the Neighborhood analysis is more about the entire community.
In the Neighborhood analysis, we use the voice memos to record everything that we see during we walking in the area, this activity is kind of interesting to me, the main reason was I never have experience about voice memos, so this requirement is fresh to me. On the other hand every day I walk around my neighborhood, I am not always paying attention about what happens in the area（except the construction work）, if the assignment requires change by video recording instead of the voice memos, I believe I would holding the camera and walking on the street unpurposed. By using voice memos, I have to observe everything that happens at the moment, and we can find something that we never pay attention in daily during the observation.
This assignment gives a chance to learn about my neighborhood change by the time, and the voice memos help me do observation in the detail. I appreciate this assignment give me a great experience that never has before.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gjCtzX4YiDw_rhpviUoFT7ACOi0MdH-CEQqJl7JNalc/edit?usp=sharing
Site Analysis of Neighborhood slide link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Sd9Bkn4mUdAHdpbkz0MsqsyfDvum3VKN
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