Response to The Social Functions of NIMBYism
When a developer begins a project there usually is a meeting with the neighborhood that the project is being developed in. When there is a meeting, people of the neighborhood will “complain” they didn’t get the notice of meeting until the last minute. I can relate to this because sometimes I feel that if it is a town meeting the noticed aren’t posted in good areas for advertisement or you have to know where to look. At any type of meeting there is usually a controversial item that people can’t seem to agree upon or come to a mutual agreement, and usually this disagreement happens because the topic at hand has a personal impact on one or more people. Another point to make is that different meetings attract many different people based on the topics on the agenda.
Response to One country, twenty innovative public space management authorities
One study on a town that I thought was very interesting was the study on Greenwich. The town monitors the graffiti and gives cleaning supplies to “young people… to help clear up the problem areas in local social housing estates, schools and youth clubs. In some places graffiti is give a wall or area that graffiti artists are allowed to call their canvas and spray away to the hearts content. While other places have no way of controlling the areas or the amount of graffiti that is being spray-painted. I think that educating the spray paint artist is a good idea, because the removal process takes a while and there are different ways for removing graffiti from different materials.
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