HEADING WEST: MAY 31. 2006

To venture into the so-called western and eastern regions of the city, we layered all of the responses we had received from our two City Hall visits onto the Walk Oakland map. By doing this, we could see how far people's perceptions of the regions spanned and where their areas of overlap lay. Cool colors denote the 'boundaries' of the west and warm colors denote 'boundaries' of the east.

We are using City Hall as our launch site. Even as we pull up and begin to select our route with the map and GPS, curious passers-by want to know what we is going on. One person called us the ‘mobile geography lesson’. That’s pretty on target, except for the fact that we are looking forward to people teaching us a thing or two about the city. We have very few answers. We decided to first head west and travel towards the area that most people designated as West Oakland.