After walking around the neighborhood and reading the class blogs I am interested in how we can use our class projects to answer some of those questions you posed.
What is the logic of how to choose the houses for the house histories in order to get at the different questions that we might be interested in? Do we want larger coverage or concentrated on a few blocks? Do we want only older houses, larger houses, more architecturally interesting, or a range of all? What is the criteria for choosing? Wouldn't this depend on what we wanted to find out about the neighborhood?
What do we make of the reasons for decline that you noticed in the neighborhood? How would you find that out? Is deterioration of houses any indication of whether people feel connected to their neighbors and to the neighborhood?
How do we judge whether there is a sense of a neighborhood here? Can we see any signs of that by walking through or do we have to use other kinds of sources? Did the city just set these boundaries or did people have some input? What was their criteria for deciding where the boundaries went?
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