Session 2: What is a Neighborhood?
Session Description
In this session, we’ll explore the many ways in which the concept of neighborhoods are used in various areas of urban planning and governance. We will continue to build upon previous questions regarding the significance of neighborhoods as a unit of analysis, planning, and policymaking, and will explore frameworks for neighborhood analysis.
Before Class
Your readings for today provide insight into some of the working definitions for value judgements regarding the qualities of neighborhoods and why planners have found these qualities to be of importance to measure and understand.
Note that you must be logged in to your UIUC Box.com account in order to access these readings. This is to respect the copyright of the authors on a publicly accessible website.
Talen, Emily, Sunny Menozzi, and Chloe Schaefer. (2015). What is a “Great Neighborhood”? An Analysis of APA’s Top-Rated Places. Journal of the American Planning Association, 81(2): 121-141.
Rohe, William. (2009). From Local to Global: One Hundred Years of Neighborhood Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association 75(2): 209-230
Slides
Other Resources and Actions
Download and Install R and RStudio
We will begin working in R and RStudio starting next week. If you have not already done so, download and install R on the computer you will work on.
If you have not already done so, complete the course introductory survey.
If you have not already done so, create and register a Github account.