This Saturday I will be returning to New York to study our next site, Times Square and to revisit our first site Columbus Circle. Our first week at Columbus Circle was a holiday weekend and I did not want to include the inconsistent variable of traffic that included many visitors that you would otherwise not see on an average day. For this next phase of the research I will be assessing the transitioning between the oldest historic buildings in each of our locations to the newest development in terms of scale, by comparing building heights, socio-economic impacts and capital, building design (square footage, foot print, etc), distances to street edge and local transportation (which may also fall under usage).
To study the usage, I plan to observe the activities of the site by the local inhabitants and visitors by charting clustered activity where people may convene to eat, socialize, play, observe, work, etc.
The materials and style of each building will also be recorded by observation and through researching soft data on the building's history. All of the data that I will acquire over the next few days will hopefully demonstrate the social impacts of each project to understand how large scale-influential projects changed within each location, and ultimately to better understand the significant changes that occurred impacted the success had over projects and the impacts of mega projects on the surrounding communities over time.
This is a strong proposal, but it is to immense to complete all this research in 4 weeks. It would take a minimum to 4 years to do this work. Narrow your focus to a manageable size.
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