Evan Stanfield, Irvine Graffiti Tunnel Jane Jacobs book is, as you know, about urban planning and the lack of feeling and emotion that modernistic city planning maintains today. Jane feels that this "rational" planning is only hindering the creativity seen in humans and rejects any sort of the individuality and creativity that human beings seem to love and thrive in. She doesn't like the separation of industry from suburban communities because it creates isolated, unnatural urban and communal spaces. Which is why i chose this picture...this is a hidden tunnel near UCI that is full or graffiti...its also know as the graffiti tunnel. This hidden tunnel shows the chaos and the hidden jems that can be found in a city that i feel has no culture or flavor.
3 comments:
i dont think Jane Jacobs would like this environment that is depicted the picture. It is a place where it is abandoned and nobody is there and people are just misusing it for the wrong reasons and tagging it and destroying property. Vandalism is something that Jane Jacobs would not approve of and would want to try to fix that problem
do others agree? i sort of think JJ might like graffiti... and maybe she also wouldn't call it vandalism... then again, she did call the one park pervert park...
Although i agree with what christina said i think that jane jacobs might actually appreciate the use of the space. I think that jane very much so appreciates individuality and expression... and graffiti is just that a form of expression. This also turns a standard cement aquaduct into a piece of art. now wheather or not the would actually like the graffiti is different but the concept of the wall as an art i think she would like.
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