Editing Denver (section)

=== Neighborhoods ===
{{See also|List of neighborhoods in Denver}}

[[File:Denver neighborhoods.gif|thumb|upright=1.8|Denver's 78 official neighborhoods]]

The City and County of Denver has 78 official [[neighborhood]]s used for planning and administration.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://data.denvergov.org/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-statistical-neighborhoods |title = Denver Open Data Catalog: Statistical Neighborhoods |author= City and County of Denver, Community Planning and Development |publisher= DenverGov.org}}</ref> The system of neighborhood boundaries and names dates to 1970 when city planners divided the city into 73 groups of one to four census tracts, called "statistical neighborhoods," most of which are unchanged since then.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beaty |first1=Kevin |title=How Denver's neighborhoods got their shapes |url=https://denverite.com/2021/04/06/how-denvers-neighborhoods-got-their-shapes/ |website=Denverite |date=April 6, 2021 |publisher=Denverit |access-date=31 July 2024}}</ref>

Unlike some other cities, such as [[Community areas in Chicago|Chicago]], Denver does not have official larger area designations. Colloquially, names such as Northside and Westside are still in use, but not well-known.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hunt |first1=Rebbecca |title=Northside History: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods |url=https://coloradocommunitymedia.com/2022/10/15/northside-history-a-tale-of-two-neighborhoods/ |website=The Denver NorthStar |date=October 15, 2022 |publisher=Colorado Community Media |access-date=31 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mead & Hunt |title=Nuestras Historias: Mexican American/Chicano/Latino Histories in Denver An Historic Context |url=https://www.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/v/2/community-planning-and-development/documents/landmark-preservation/historic-context/nuestrashistoriascontext_en.pdf |website=City and County of Denver |access-date=31 July 2024}}</ref> Community planners have recently been using a set of 19 larger areas, all of which are groups of statistical neighborhoods, as part of the Area Planning process.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neighborhood Planning |url=https://denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Community-Planning-and-Development/Planning/Neighborhood-Planning |website=City and County of Denver |access-date=31 July 2024}}</ref>

[[File:Construction Cherokee.jpg|thumb|upright|Construction along Cherokee Street in the Golden Triangle neighborhood]]

Denver also has a number of colloquial neighborhood names and boundaries reflecting how people in an area, or others such as community groups and real estate developers, have defined areas. Well-known non-administrative neighborhoods include the historic and trendy [[LoDo]] (short for "Lower Downtown"), part of the city's [[Union Station, Denver|Union Station neighborhood]]; Uptown, straddling [[North Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado|North Capitol Hill]] and [[City Park West, Denver|City Park West]]; Curtis Park and RiNo ("River North"), both part of the [[Five Points (Denver)|Five Points]] neighborhood; [[Alamo Placita, Denver|Alamo Placita]], the northern part of the [[Speer, Denver|Speer neighborhood]]; [[Park Hill, Denver|Park Hill]], a successful example of intentional racial integration;<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research |url=http://www.luc.edu/curl/projects/past/documents/cityscpe/vol4num2/ch5.html |title=Park Hill, Denver |volume=4 |issue=2 |year=1998 |last=Woods |first=Katherine |publisher=U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |pages=89–103 |access-date=January 11, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904083433/http://www.luc.edu/curl/projects/past/documents/cityscpe/vol4num2/ch5.html |archive-date=September 4, 2006 }}</ref> and [[Golden Triangle, Denver|Golden Triangle]], in the Civic Center.

One of Denver's newer neighborhoods was built on the site of [[Stapleton International Airport]], named after former Denver mayor [[Benjamin F. Stapleton]], a member of the Ku Klux Klan.<ref>{{Cite web|author=David Williams|title=Local officials in Denver's Stapleton neighborhood want to change its name because of a former mayor's KKK ties|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/us/denver-stapleton-name-change-trnd/index.html|access-date=August 21, 2020|website=CNN|date=June 15, 2020 }}</ref> In 2020, the neighborhood's community association voted to change the name from Stapleton to Central Park<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Babiak |first1=Larissa |title=Central Park Selected as New Name for Stapleton Neighborhood |url=https://303magazine.com/2020/07/stapleton-neighborhood-name-change/ |date=July 20, 2020 |website=303 Magazine |language=en-US |access-date=February 22, 2024}}</ref> (see more in Politics section below). The Central Park neighborhood itself has 12 "neighborhoods" within its boundaries.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Central Park: 12 Neighborhoods Strong|url=https://www.denver80238.com/#:~:text=Central%20Park%20Denver%20(formerly%20Stapleton,Strong%20%E2%80%93%20New%20Homes%20in%20Denver|url-status=live|website=Denver80238.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804201355/http://denver80238.com/ |archive-date=August 4, 2018 }}</ref>