Here I have tried to formulate a couple of topics and questions with a motivation relevant to the neighborhood that I’m researching, Red Hook / Smith – 9th Street, oriented to understanding both the past and possible future of the neighborhood.

1. 

Topic: I am studying people,

Question: because I want to find out how they interact with each other,

Significance: in order to help my reader understand how the community is divided, or merged.

2.

Topic: I am studying available Green Space,

Question: because I want to find out what resources the neighborhood have at their disposal,

Significance: in order to understand what resources the residents have available, and if it is something that is needed.

3. 

Topic: I am studying the needs of the majority of the residents,

Question: because I want to find out what they are missing in their neighborhood,

Significance: in order to make the residents life easier and more accessible.

4.

Topic: I am studying the history of art,

Question: because I want to find out how immersed and responsive the community is to  art,

Significance: in order to help my reader understand how the community might respond to an art intervention in the neighborhood.

5.

Topic: I am studying the history of the commercial activity of the neighborhood,

Question: because I want to find out why the neighborhood have its businesses it has today,

Significance: in order the help my reader understand how the future might evolve in the neighborhood within the business sector.