Carl Zehr Square renovations

[ijmorlan]

I'm not saying it's a silver bullet, and it takes effort to get right, but it's a constructive empathetic inclusive solution, rather than an antagonistic oppressive and exclusive one.

Ultimately there are two problems here...a surface one...the bridge is getting tagged...and a deeper one...there are people in our community who feel so excluded and disconnected as to be motivated to tag parts of our community.

This is a good way of thinking about it. I think where artwork helps the issue it is probably at least in part the social context as you say, rather than simply the presence of art vs. a blank space.

I’m a bit unclear, however, on what you are referring to when you characterize something as “antagonistic oppressive and exclusive”. I don’t think anybody has suggested any draconian responses in this thread.