JJ and AB

Asad Bedran, Echo Park Graffiti

The attached photo depicts a graffiti covered wall at Echo Park in Los Angeles, California. Jane Jacobs dislikes parks and loved sidewalks, as Professor Lupton highlighted in lecture, the reasons regard social interaction. In this photograph Echo Park, once a beautiful park designed for social activity, has been enclosed by commercial communities in responce to an expanding Downtown Los Angeles. The park is a popular hangout spot for local gangs and that discourages public interaction. So this supports her dislike of parks with comparison to the more publicly used sidewalks/ city streets. A nice comparison would be to look at a photo of a sidewalk in Downtown on a work day or Hollywood on a weekend.

JJ and ES

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.