Mapping Your Neighborhood

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Mapping Your Neighborhood
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How would you define your neighborhood?

• What are the boundaries of your neighborhood?
• Who lives in your neighborhood?
• What are its important places?
• How do outsiders perceive your neighborhood?
• What do you know about your neighborhood that
  outsiders would not know?

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Neighborhood

• A neighborhood is a geographically recognizable
  area.
• It may be part of a town or a city (Anacostia)
  it may be a suburb (Capitol Heights).

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• Neighborhoods are often self-defined by common
  residential characteristics, including race
  ethnicity (Little Italy, Chinatown) the ages and
  types of buildings and land use, whether
  residential, industrial, or commercial.

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Neighborhoods Have Boundaries

• Boundaries define the limits of a neighborhood.
  These boundaries can be natural (rivers or
  mountains), man-made (freeways or areas of
  specific land use), or municipal (including
  street signs and other city signs).

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Assignment

• STEP ONE Working in teams of 3, create a map of
  your neighborhood in ArcView GIS. Include on your
  map all those items you think are important in
  defining your neighborhood (e.g. roads,
  buildings, etc.).

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Mapping Your Neighborhood

• STEP TWO Digitize your map to show the
  boundaries of your neighborhood.
• STEP THREE Query the table of attributes for
  your map to find out additional information about
  your neighborhood.

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Mapping Your Neighborhood

• STEP FOUR Then describe your neighborhood using
  the information you found by creating and
  querying your map.
• STEP FIVE Add local knowledge, i.e.
  information that only you would know as a
  resident of the neighborhood.