This map might look very similar to the map I posted last week — and it is, but it also includes some other crucial data. This map now displays areas relative hazards in Portland split up into zones: Zone A being the highest danger (red), and Zone D being the lowest (pale yellow). These hazards include […]
How to Build a Resilient Community in 5 Pages
Our task this week was to write a 5 page thesis as a way to determine the most important components and ideas of our argument. In an attempt to have complete data for this, these past few weeks I’ve been logging posts from Portland’s “snowpocalypse” that happened over winter break. I’m using this as a case […]
Visualizing the Invisible: Portland’s Minority Populations
As our first project in (Un)Natural Disasters, we mapped the various vulnerabilities in our very own city: Portland, OR. The rationale behind this project was that colleges and universities are generally well-known in the community, and are known to have both material and human resources that could be of use to people. Therefore, they could potentially be […]
Bare Branches: A Brief Outline
Today’s assignment was to create an outline for our 5 page thesis due next week. Approaching this assignment was an interesting exercise for me since we’ve already written a final synthesis and a full length outline. Last time my outline was way too long — so this time I tried to vastly simplify it since […]
My Nextdoor Collins View Survey!
This week has been so exciting!! I finally got all my questions together and finalized them with Liz. Yesterday I posted the survey link on Nextdoor (restricted to Collins View) and have already gotten almost 30 responses! Seeing as I probably want at least 100 and this initial spike was probably the most traffic my […]
Third Places as a Theoretical Framework
After contacting Prof. Daena Goldsmith upon recommendation from an ENVS colleague, she sent back a plethora of rich resources to look into. Initially my work focused on the role of trusted organizations, with the idea of a third place as a means of further exploration, but in this research I found that actually they are […]