Budapest Street-Level Functions
Mapping how the ground floors of selected Budapest streets — cafés, shops, vacancies, residential gates, presszók, kormányablakok — have shifted over the last twenty years, read against the political and economic backdrop of the period.
The methodology uses historical Google Street View captures as its primary source: each capture date becomes its own observation, building a chronological stack of snapshots per unit. A long-format schema separates the physical space (unit_id) from the business identity (business_id), so turnover and function change can be analysed independently. Hybrid uses are handled with fixed-weight shares, and frontage activity is scored on Jan Gehl's A–E scale.
Ráday utca, with its documented gastro-boom-and-decline arc, is the proving ground. The final output is a QGIS time-slider visualization that lets the change signal be read alongside the events that shaped it.
Repo private during data collection; methodology and findings will surface here as the work matures.