Our gleaning exercise hit the streets to document the quantity and character of food-related advertising on the streets of Providence. While by no means an exhaustive study, we covered 10 miles worth of streetscape radiating out from Kennedy Plaza, our self imposed "city center". We chose to focus our cataloging on the primary signage used by any establishment whose main business was to sell food.
Our first attempt to organize information resulted in the creation of a series of photo-embedded maps that give both a geographic and qualitative understanding of the distribution of food along our chosen routes.
The second part of our analysis combed through the collected data to compile graphically accessible statistics on the types of businesses surveyed, and the language and colors utilized by signage. The result is a snapshot of the diversity of food opportunities in the center of Providence.
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