Two neighborhoods interact via power, influence, and leadership. There is a long-standing arrangement or entrenched leadership keeping things stable. Enough people, or the right people, like things as they are and work to keep it that way.

• Who benefits from the situation? Who suffers?
• What keeps the relationship going?
• How reluctant are people to acknowledge or confront the situation?

Two neighborhoods interact via influence, and leadership. One might dominate another, depend on another for legitimacy, or prioritize or ignore the other. When the corrupt edifice falls, who will be beneath it when it finally falls?

• Who is agitating for change? Who holds the line?
• What outside influences are present? Who do they support?
• Is the struggle physically peaceful or violent?