Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

This is what I wish would have happened to Borf, Koma, and Nores

Boy George cleaning the streetsBoy George, right, who was born George O'Dowd, is photographed by the press as he sweeps a curb, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, in New York. The one-time Culture Club singer was ordered to spend five days working for the Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty in March to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. The officers who responded found cocaine instead. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)

Borf, Koma, and Nores were taggers who contributed to deterioration of the physical environment in DC, most often in neighborhood commercial districts.
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Mary C. Williams, left, D.C. Clean City coordinator, and activist Tomika Hughey (then the director of the H Street Main Street program) show graffiti damage on H Street NE. (Photo Michael Williamson -- The Washington Post)

Borf lives in Virginia; Koma and Nores in Maryland. I thought each should have been sentenced to a goodly amount of street cleaning and graffiti removal Although I wanted their graffiti cleaning to also be broadcast on the DC government cable television channel.
Boy George cleaning the streets(AFP/Getty Images/Bryan Bedder)

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