Why Does San Jose Have So Many Urban Islands?

Bay Curious

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4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Bay Curious listener Kristin Seitz was looking at a map of San Jose when she noticed an awful lot of holes. The city's territory isn't one undivided shape, but rather resembles a piece of Swiss cheese. Seitz wondered: Why are there so many unincorporated "urban islands" in the San Jose area? Reported by Ericka Cruz-Guevarra. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Jane Power lives on an island.
0:05.0	Oh, so like this.
0:07.0	No, not that kind of island.
0:12.0	Okay, think of it this way.
0:14.0	Instead of being surrounded by water,
0:16.0	Jane Power lives in Burbank.
0:18.0	So maybe more like this?
0:20.0	No, not the old night shows Burbank.
0:25.0	Her Burbank is surrounded on all sides by the city of San Jose.
0:30.0	I'm Erica Cruz Gavara and I'm Jose.
0:33.4	I'm Erica Cruz Gavara.
0:34.9	And I'm Olivia Allen Price, and this is Bay Curious.
0:38.4	This week's question comes from listener Kristen Sites.
0:41.4	She and her husband were looking at a map of Jane Powers Urban Island.
0:45.2	We saw that there were lots and lots of unincorporated areas.
0:49.2	Some were just, they looked like small ranches kind of in the middle of the city and others are
0:54.0	kind of you know fully developed areas. She asked Bay curious why there are so many
0:59.0	unincorporated areas in the South Bay, San Jose in particular.
1:04.2	I took a look at a map and she's right.
1:06.6	It looks like a piece of Swiss cheese.
1:08.8	I went to go check it out.
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