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Restaurants Retail

Hotels Other

Documenting Venice’s Formal

Economy

Retail and Restaurants

Increase in restaurants and bars

Decrease in number of traditional retail stores

Corporately Owned Businesses

Validating and integrating information about

Venice’s retail sector

New database of Information

Store locations

Type of Store

Store opening

dates

Status of Store

Investigating the current retail

sector of Venice

• Location • Status (Open or Closed)• Name• Number of Employees• Depth• Merchandise

Investigating the current hotel sector

•Location • Status (Open or Closed)• Name• Number of Employees

Investigating the current restaurant

sector

• Location • Status (Open or Closed)• Name• Number of Employees• Seats Inside • Seats Outside

Field FormSestiere: __________________________ Date: _______________________ Recorders: ____________________________________

Retail Restaurants

Ho

tels

(x)

Informal

Comments

Dep

th (m

)

Merchandise

Lowest Merchandise Seats

Type

Tim

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4 h

r.)

N. o

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Address Picture No.

Sta

tus

Name

Emp

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es

Type

Ht(

cm)

No. InNo. Out

Informal Activities in Venice

Illegal activities in Canneregio

Documenting the Informal Activities

• Locations

• Typology

• Merchandise information

• Time of day

Documenting the Informal Activities

• Picasa• Map Info

Observations Thus Far

• Flower sellers mainly come out at night

• Beggars come out mid-morning to mid-afternoon

• Bag peddlers mainly come out mid-morning/early afternoon and stay out until around sundown

Locations of Informal Activities

Flower sellers

Bag Peddlers

Beggars

Other vendors

Flower sellers

Bag Peddlers

Beggars

Other vendors

Estimating the Value Informal Activities

Average price per item x Amount of items sold = Amount of money seller earns

Average price per item x Amount of items stocked =

Potential amount of money seller can earn

Identifying Tourists

Retail

Hotel

Restaurant

Clothes Accessories Behavior• Casual Wear• Flip flops• Sneakers

• Dazed• Slow Moving• Language

• Cameras• Maps• Baggage

Estimating Effects of Tourism on the Restaurant and Retail Sectors

Classify them as Tourist or Resident Orientated

Visualize trends over time via MapInfo

Update Alberghi

Data

Estimate Hotel €

Visualize Trends

Equations ExcelSpread

Sheet

Effects of Flooding: Adding up to big trouble

Structural

Damage +

Forced

Store

Closings=

Financial Trouble

Financial Trouble

Structural

Damage

• Loss of property

• Loss of architectural value

• Clean up costs

• Repair costs

Forced

Store

Closings

• Loss of customers/store income

• Loss of employee work hours

• Unsellable merchandise

Assessing the economic impact of

floods: Structural Damage

Research periodicals

Determine costs of major flood cleanup and restoration

Consolidate to find an average

cost

Assessing the economic impact of floods:

Forced Store Closings

Step 1: Identifying

high-risk areas

Observe/determine average flood heights, durations, frequencies.

Measure/determine average height of doors and amount of

merchandise left in streets

Identify sectors where the stores are at highest risk

Step 2: Determining revenue loss in these areas

Estimate number of closed stores due to floods

Use sample data to determine average effects

Formal Economy

Store compendium

Virtual Maps

Before and After

Collage

Informal Economy

Location Map

Tourism

Interactive Evolution Timeline

Floods

Graphical displays

Our Database

Questions or

Comments?

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