{"id":2930,"date":"2026-08-14T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:57:17","slug":"making-sense-of-different-areas-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/making-sense-of-different-areas-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING SENSE OF DIFFERENT AREAS (PART 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #00a5a5; font-size: xx-small;\">WICHITA NEIGHBORHOOD GRID<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE FOUR WICHITA NEIGHBORHOODS<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #00a5a5;\">TYPE A:<br \/>\nPROFESSIONALIZED<\/span><\/th>\n<th align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #00a5a5;\">TYPE B: GRAPEVINE<\/span><\/th>\n<th align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #00a5a5;\">TYPE C: INDIVIDUAL ACESS TO POWER<\/span><\/th>\n<th align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: #00a5a5;\">TYPE D: UNORGANIZED<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Neighborhood Example in Wichita<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Riverside<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Northeast<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">College Hill<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">West Side<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\"><strong>Quasi-official spaces<br \/>\n(Level 2)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Professional, well-organized, strong participation<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Fragmented; has weaker connections to official layer<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Exist but are not seen as important<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Few or none<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\"><strong>Third Places<br \/>\n(Level 3)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Fewer than in the past; often artificially created<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Rich, varied network<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Few or none<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Often invisible to outsiders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\"><strong>Incidental spaces<br \/>\n(Level 4)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Active<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Active<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Less active<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Active<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\"><strong>Center of<br \/>\nPublic Life<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Meetings of organizations<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Informal public conversations at Levels 3 and 4<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Private connections to civic leaders<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"20%\">Not clear given limited research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/identifying-types-of-community-leaders-3\">READ THE NEXT SECTION OF THE WORKBOOK &#8212; IDENTIFYING THPES OF COMMUNITY LEADERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/tapping-civic-life-reporting-first-and-best-whats-happening-in-your-community-1st-edition\">BACK TO TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA NEIGHBORHOOD GRID FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE FOUR WICHITA NEIGHBORHOODS TYPE A: PROFESSIONALIZED TYPE B: GRAPEVINE TYPE C: INDIVIDUAL ACESS TO POWER TYPE D: UNORGANIZED Neighborhood Example in Wichita Riverside Northeast College Hill West Side Quasi-official spaces (Level 2) Professional, well-organized, strong participation Fragmented; has weaker connections to official layer Exist but are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-testinglink.com\/projects\/civilorg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}