ABSTRACT
Gerrymandering – the partisan practice of drawing congressional district lines in ways that deliver a voting advantage to the majority party, at the expense of the minority – is of paramount concern to our national politics. Given that congressional districting structures electoral college voting, partisan influence on how district lines are drawn effects governance at every level. Essentially a spatial planning process, gerrymandering should be of particular concern to those who lay out sites and determine land use. Yet few planning and design professionals are trained to consider how their work intersects with districting procedures and their wide-reaching social, economic, and political ramifications.
