Editing San Diego (section)

===Neighborhoods===
{{Main|List of communities and neighborhoods of San Diego}}
The City of San Diego recognizes 52 individual areas as Community Planning Areas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/index.shtml |title=City of San Diego Community Planning Areas |publisher=Sandiego.gov |access-date=May 4, 2011 |archive-date=May 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506014002/http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/index.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Within a given planning area there may be several distinct neighborhoods. Altogether the city contains more than 100 identified [[Neighborhoods of San Diego, California|neighborhoods]].

[[Downtown San Diego]] is located on [[San Diego Bay]]. [[Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park]] encompasses several mesas and canyons to the northeast, surrounded by older, dense urban communities including [[Hillcrest, San Diego|Hillcrest]] and [[North Park, San Diego|North Park]]. To the east and southeast lie [[City Heights, San Diego|City Heights]], the [[College Area]], and [[Southeast San Diego]]. To the north lies [[Mission Valley]] and [[Interstate 8]]. The communities north of the valley and freeway, and south of [[Marine Corps Air Station Miramar]], include [[Clairemont, San Diego|Clairemont]], [[Kearny Mesa]], [[Tierrasanta]], and [[Navajo, San Diego|Navajo]]. Stretching north from Miramar are the northern suburbs of [[Mira Mesa]], [[Scripps Ranch]], [[Rancho Peñasquitos]], and [[Rancho Bernardo]]. The far northeast portion of the city encompasses [[Lake Hodges]] and the [[San Pasqual Valley]], which holds an agricultural preserve. [[Carmel Valley, San Diego|Carmel Valley]] and [[Del Mar Heights, San Diego|Del Mar Heights]] occupy the northwest corner of the city. To their south are [[Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve]] and the business center of the [[Golden Triangle, San Diego|Golden Triangle]]. Further south are the beach and coastal communities of [[La Jolla]], [[Pacific Beach, San Diego|Pacific Beach]], [[Mission Beach, San Diego|Mission Beach]], and [[Ocean Beach, San Diego|Ocean Beach]]. [[Point Loma]] occupies the peninsula across San Diego Bay from downtown. The communities of [[South San Diego]] (an [[Exclave]]), such as [[San Ysidro, San Diego|San Ysidro]] and [[Otay Mesa]], are located next to the [[Mexico–United States border]], and are physically separated from the rest of the city by the cities of [[National City, California|National City]] and [[Chula Vista]]. A narrow strip of land at the bottom of San Diego Bay connects these southern neighborhoods with the rest of the city.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/nonprofits/how-san-ysidro-became-part-of-the-city-of-san-diego/|title=How San Ysidro Became Part of the City of San Diego|date=May 8, 2019|website=Voice of San Diego|language=en-US|access-date=December 9, 2019}}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed" heights="100" caption="Selection of [[List of communities and neighborhoods of San Diego|neighborhoods in San Diego]]">
File:La Jolla Shores photo D Ramey Logan (cropped).jpg|[[La Jolla]]
File:North Park, San Diego, CA, USA - panoramio (11) (cropped).jpg|[[North Park, San Diego|North Park]]
File:La Playa, San Diego, CA, USA - panoramio (10) (cropped).jpg|[[Point Loma, San Diego|Point Loma]]
File:East Village, San Diego, CA, USA - panoramio (24).jpg|[[East Village, San Diego|East Village]]
File:Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego-1.jpg|[[Gaslamp Quarter]]
File:Guild Theater, San Diego.jpg|[[Hillcrest, San Diego|Hillcrest]]
File:University of San Diego (cropped).jpg|[[Linda Vista, San Diego|Linda Vista]]
File:San Diego - California - Yacht Harbor with Hotels (cropped).jpg|[[Columbia, San Diego|Columbia]]
File:Normal Height's sign, Adams Avenue.jpg|[[Normal Heights, San Diego|Normal Heights]]
File:Rancho Bernardo View (cropped).jpg|[[Rancho Bernardo, San Diego|Rancho Bernardo]]
File:Marina, San Diego, CA, USA - panoramio (35) (cropped).jpg|[[Marina, San Diego|Marina district]]
</gallery>
For the most part, San Diego neighborhood boundaries tend to be understood by its residents based on geographical boundaries like canyons and street patterns.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1538-4632.1990.tb00213.x|title=Residents' Spatial Knowledge of Neighborhood Continuity and Form', Geographical Analysis|author=Aitken, Stuart |author2=Prosser, Rudy|date=September 3, 2010|volume=22|issue=4|journal=Geographical Analysis|pages=301–325|doi-access=free}}</ref> The city recognized the importance of its neighborhoods when it organized its 2008 General Plan around the concept of a "City of Villages".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/18/city-sandag-win-planning-awards/ |title=City, SANDAG win planning awards| author=Roger Showley |work=San Diego Union-Tribune |date=April 18, 2010 |access-date=May 4, 2011}}</ref>