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Do suburbs have neighborhoods?. Who are we: The Community We Serve. Community Foundation for Greater Hartford Founded in 1925 Serving 29 towns About 800K people. Hartford is here. Hartford at the center, but declining population + increasing poverty. Data via: CT State Data Center.
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Who are we: The Community We Serve • Community Foundation for Greater Hartford • Founded in 1925 • Serving 29 towns • About 800K people Hartford is here
Hartford at the center, but declining population + increasing poverty Data via: CT State Data Center
Population growth in the suburbs Data via: CT State Data Center
Why do we care: concentrated poverty, rising poverty in suburbs
What is a neighborhood? • No single definition • Focus on what the neighborhood contains, not the boundaries • Two general types of definitions • State: ‘mutually exclusive and exhaustive’ • Vernacular: locally driven and understood
Hartford has neighborhoods Asylum Hill Barry Square Behind the Rocks Blue Hills Clay-Arsenal Downtown Frog Hollow Northeast North Meadows Parkville Sheldon/Charter Oak South End South Green South Meadows Southwest Upper Albany West End hartfordinfo.org
Three towns in the urban periphery: do they have neighborhoods? http://www.ctdata.org/
Does the census see neighborhoods? Town of Enfield contains four census-designated places With much lower population density overall (people / square mile)
Do towns see neighborhoods? • Planning and zoning • Services • Revitalization / redevelopment East Hartford West Hartford West Hartford Via town websites
Do public services see neighborhoods? Police Fire http://enfield.ct.gov
Do realtors see neighborhoods? Sometimes? http://www.zillow.com/
Do communities see neighborhoods? nccsdataweb.urban.org, enfieldcdc.org
Do residents see neighborhoods? http://bostonography.com/
Why do we want neighborhoods? “Purely local, customary practices…achieve a level of precision and clarity—often with impressive economy—perfectly suited to the needs of knowledgeable locals. State naming practices are, by contrast, constructed to guide an official ‘stranger’ in unambiguously identifying persons and places, not just in a single locality, but in many localities using standardized administrative techniques.” - James C. Scott, “The Trouble with the View from Above”
