Neighborhood Map - Seeking input from Denver locals (Aurora, Arvada: crime, loan)

[UrbanArchitext]

Hello All!

I'm looking to create a typographic map of the neighborhoods of Denver.

This map can be found on the Denver city website:
http://www.denvergov.org/denvermaps/...ghborhoods.pdf

From a local's perspective, are these neighborhood names accurate?

Are there any neighborhoods you feel are missing?

Are there any neighborhoods that are commonly reffered to by another name?

Any and all input from Denver natives is welcome!

[davebarnes]

Sub neighborhoods are missing.
The official neighborhoods and their names are fine as far as I know.

Unofficial names are missing.
For example: Bonnie Brae.
Bonnie Brae is 100% inside Belcaro.
No one who lives in Bonnie Brae says that they live in Belcaro.
And those that live in Belcaro Park would be pissed if the Bonnie Brae people said they did live in Belcaro.
Belcaro also includes Lakota Heights (see the city engineer platt maps) and I guarantee that those who live in Belcaro Park are ashamed and angry that Lakota Heights is in their official neighborhood of Belcaro.
Just a tad bit of class warfare here.

[royhobbstn]

Those are the Denver 'statistical' neighborhoods which are useful to the city for tracking demographic information. Statistical neighborhood boundaries tend to be coincident with Census Tracts. Denver residents usually identify with their statistical neighborhood, but in some cases there are sub-neighborhoods (such as Bonnie Brae - mentioned above, Curtis Park, Ballpark, Alamo Placita) that people more strongly identify with.
I guess you could say that the statistical neighborhoods are a good start to understanding how Denver citizens identify themselves, but that many neighborhoods can be broken down further.

[UrbanArchitext]

That's exactly the kind of stuff I'm looking for: neighborhoods within neighborhoods.

There are often macro and micro neighborhoods, especially in larger cities.

Please feel free to throw out as many of these smaller neighborhood names that you can.

Currently, I've got:

Belcaro
-Bonnie Rae
-Belcaro Park
-Lakota Heights

Speer
-Alamo Placita

Five Points
-Curtis Park
-Ballpark

[Snikt]

I know this is just Denver stuff, but it would be nice if this map existed for the entire metro area

[davebarnes]

I asked my neighbor--who has lived his entire life here-- what he says about where he lives.
His reply: The North Side.
I said: Not Berkeley?
"No, I have never said Berkeley."

I think this is typical for long-time residents of: Sunnyside, Berkeley, Highland, West Highland, Jefferson (and probably Sloan's Lake). Not sure about Regis and Chafee Park.

So, now we have:
Macro neighborhoods
Statistical (official) neighborhoods.
Micro neighborhoods.

[davidv]

When I grew up in Harvey Park, no one called the neighborhood to the south Harvey Park South.

Everything south of Yale between Lowell and Wadsworth was considered Bear Valley.

[UrbanArchitext]

@snikt - what other areas would you include for the metro area?

@daveb - thanks for talking to your neighbor. i think it's common in a lot of places to refer to a much larger are as "where you're from". When somone asks me where I live, I say "in town", rather than Ala Moana.

@davidd - what would you call Lowell to Federal?

I'm thinking about cropping out anything east of Stapleton (Montbello, Green Valley Ranch, Airport). Would it be a crime to create a "Denver" map and omit these areas? I've seen other maps that have done it (the original link posted for example), but I'm wondering if it's "acceptable". It definitely makes fitting Denver on a piece of paper a lot easier.

Any and all input welcome!

[Snikt]

Well at least the major suburbs

Littleton, highlands ranch, centennial, lakewood, englewood, maybe Golden, Arvada, Westminster, Broomfield, Thornton, Aurora

[2bindenver]

just wait until the OP finds the finger....