More on neighborhood definition

Marie Maxwell's 1874 rowhouse is on a colorful block of "darn cute" houses.
Originally uploaded by rllayman

I wrote about this last week, and MZ commented how what used to be called Dupont East is now called Logan Circle, because Logan Circle is "hot" and maybe Dupont Circle is less trendy.

I was struck by by the headline of this article from the Washington Post Real Estate Section a couple weeks ago, "'Not Quite Dupont' to Some; an Inspiration to Many," because I thought "not quite Shaw?, who doesn't know that this neighborhood is Shaw? "

But when new people and other stakeholders are doing the defining, definitions change.

(Washington Post photo of a famed area blogger.)