"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.
Labels: graffiti, public space management, urban design/placemaking
posted by Richard Layman @ 6:49 AM&Permanent Link
I am an urban/commercial district revitalization and transportation/mobility advocate and consultant. I was a principal in BicyclePASS, a bicycle facilities systems integration firm, based in Washington, DC. Now I'm in Salt Lake City for family reasons. Urban economic competitiveness is dependent on efficient transit and mixed use, compact places. Therefore, I end up writing a lot about mobility and urban design. I still own a house in DC, so I write a lot about Washington, DC issues. I try to write so that "universal lessons" are evident in the entries, regardless of the place.
Jane's (Jacobs) Walks, first weekend in May
Parking Day, 3rd Friday in September
Western Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Access Plan
Baltimore County Pedestrian and Bicycle Legislation
Cambridge, Maryland Commercial District Revitalization Framework Plan
Easy print Florida Market Directory
Florida Market Map & Directory
Urban Safeway Design Misses Mark op-ed, WBJ
Temper Walmart Glee with Planning op-ed, WBJ
ANC4B Large Tract Review Report on Walmart, 5/2011
ANC4B Large Tract Review Report on Walmart, Summary Recommendations
Bordercross Communications (Corinna Moebius)
This is None: Storytelling by Design
Capital City Market (w/Frozen Tropics)
Dr. Transit/League of Transit Doctors
4 Comments:
Maybe not in Kenwood, but there's a lot more graffiti than you'd expect in Montgomery County. It just may not be in the places you visit regularly.
I don't mean to belabor the point, but you often have a lot of smart, insightful things to say about the evolution of suburban places like Montgomery County, but this just seems like a fallback on the old "rich white suburb" canard which is, like, 20 years past its expiration date.
To that end, here's some examples of graffiti in Montgomery County, courtesy of Flickr:
on the Capital Crescent Trail
at the Woodside Skate Spot, Silver Spring
on the Red Line in Silver Spring
in Burtonsville
more graffiti along the Capital Crescent Trail
in Wheaton
along the ICC Trail
more graffiti in Wheaton
under the Beltway
on another bike trail
at Montgomery College in Rockville
it was really more the idea of people in Kenwood being shocked, shocked that there could be graffiti around their neighborhood...
... and the flip side of your admonition of me, that people in the suburbs think that this is an issue-problem "in the city" that they don't have to worry about.
But as you say, the twain is meeting...
Thanks so much for the site, I found a lot of useful information for us.
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