Ian White wrote:
Because they are informally-defined, traditional notions of boundaries do not apply. Does SoHo have to be adjacent to NoHo? Why can't they overlap? That's how people think about space, so it follows that you can be in multiple 'hoods at the same time. It gets messy to create a uniform definition around something that isn't fact-based, so I don't think it's well-suited to an open project (or should I say crowdsourcing??).
And people's "definition" of a neighborhood will vary based on the context being considered. It's one thing to think of a particular address as being "in a neighborhood" when discussing it casually. It's another thing entirely when things like school districts or other more formal organizations are involved. To say nothing of the 'class warfare' issues of who is or isn't "on the wrong side of the tracks".
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