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The Wood St Commons

2021-2023



In February 2021 I was approached by a collective of NGOs, activists and “unconventionally housed” communities, asking for a map of who owned each parcel of land under Interstate 880 in West Oakland, California. This apparently simple request developed into a multi-year collaboration with the communities that lived across this landscape, as we negotiated the tensions between urban planning standards in geospatial science, and the social and material realities of the site - which needed to be expressed in order for consensus across communities to be found. 

[woodstcommons.com is down. See here to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wtdSCyQVE ]

Proposal to the City of Oakland

A map presented to the City of Oakland as part of negotiation over 1507 Wood St
with the Wood St Commons
Process detailed in:

Wilmott, C and Wood, A (2024) Terra Infirma: On the Base Map in Urban Planning and GIS. Environment and Planning: D, Society and Space. 42(5–6) 734–757

If you do not have access to this article, please reach out to clancy.wilmott[at]berkeley.edu



















Under the i880, West Oakland

With Cob on Wood


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