People usually go out at night to popular restaurants, cafes, sports bars etc in a neighbourhood streets where residential use along local streets has made way to commercial uses. These places are very vibrant and generate a lot of business (day and night) that they have become important nodes in the city but no study has been commissioned by the city authorities on the contribution these streets make to the local economy. It becomes difficult from a planning perspective to plan and regulate some of the night-time activities that occur in these places to mitigate negative externalities. So I wanted to conduct a study of night-time economies but I don't know what's the best approach or methods to use.
Greetings
What you are talking about is mainly related to what is called "Spaces of Consumption" (as Klaus R. Kunzmann mentioned in an article under this title).
- I think the first step to analyze the night-tome economy condition is to divide urban areas into it into main discrete groups such as: Shopping Streets, Night Markets, Entertainment Districts and even Ethnic Islands. Through this categorize process you are able to recognize the cause and effects of each part which could result in a comprehensive cognition in this issue.
You could start investigation through main factors like:
These main questions(which obviously are more than these few basic questions) could shape a comprehensive framework that lead you to a comprehensive assessment method.
Best of Luck
Mohammadhassan Salmanian
Do a survey on local stores and collect information on their night-time sales revenue as compared to day-time numbers.
It can be assessed using the focus group discussion and questionnaire survey.
It can be assess based on the night time functions analysis in the local street.
You can take a look at this dissertation to see how she collected her data on the informal economy in Dhaka. Perhaps writing an e-mail and asking if she found these methods ideal would help you further:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-331351