Space, Place, and Cultural Impacts

Session Participants:
WEIDLICH, Stephen and DOWNS, Mike (AECOM) Exploring Community Cohesion: The Boundaries and Traits of Historic Barrio Carlsbad, California.

ABSTRACT: When the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) determined that their latest project would significantly affect the historic community of Barrio Carlsbad,
the research team conducted a first-of-its-kind research project to define the level of community cohesion present in the community. This presentation describes the results of
that research and illustrates the demographic, mathematic, geographic, and ethnographic methods with the potential to describe the boundaries, tangible and intangible traits,
and overall level of cohesion present in a community. These characteristics can either be adversely affected or enhanced through thoughtful transportation planning, including
the protection/creation of "Third Places"

Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.