Week 2 Day 1

Take-aways

  1. Concept of overlapping districts. Mutually exclusive; exhaustive. Official vs. folk.
  2. Boundary debates as "merely" symbolic and actually consequential.
  3. Researching boundaries

Property boundaries.
Metes and bounds
Space v. place.

Neighborhoods and districts. Folk and official boundaries. Catchment areas. Overlapping jurisdictions.
Oakland. Police beats. Council districts. etc.

Why would we care about districts and neighborhoods?

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See Also

Key System on Oaklandwiki
What We See When We Map Oakland's Inhabitants on Musings on Maps blog.
Oakland GIS Data Conversion 2007
http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/west-oakland-topography/
http://www.cacities.org/UploadedFiles/LeagueInternet/7b/7b4af40b-c2d6-4584-8fe5-ffe97f2d23ec.pdf
http://www.alamedainfo.com/alameda_antique_maps.htm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/external/reports/08HQAG0016.pdf

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