Post date: Sep 09, 2015 1:14:42 PM
Hey there! The first week of working on our IQP has gone really great so far! A lot of this week was dedicated to getting ready for our second PQP meeting and researching our topic. We learned a lot about the impact that the plateatici has on the city and began to understand why this is a serious problem in Venice! I even found some interesting books that can help us in our quest for knowledge. One book in particular : Venice - the Tourist Maze by Robert C. Davis and Garry R. Martin seems like a good source to find out more about the impacts of tourism on the city and its population. The book also goes into detail about how the city's retail sector is changing with the increase in tourism and how that impacts the plateatici. While we definitely need to investigate further into the evolution of Venice's shops, I think this book and some of the other sources we've found are great starting points. I wonder what we'll discover next!