How Hanging Shoes Ruin Neighborhoods
MySpace blogger Andrew gets to the heard of how shoes on powerlines drive challenged neighborhoods down in a post titled, “The Difference Between Brooklyn and Kansas“:
In Lawrence, I would sometimes see a pair of shoes on power lines while
walking down the 14th street hill, and I would wonder if it was just
college students having fun or if someone really was jumped. In
Brooklyn, when I see a pair of shoes hanging on power lines, I don’t
wonder.
walking down the 14th street hill, and I would wonder if it was just
college students having fun or if someone really was jumped. In
Brooklyn, when I see a pair of shoes hanging on power lines, I don’t
wonder.
So why do cities like Minneapolis do such a poor job removing shoes in challenged neighborhoods while quickly removing shoes from less challenged areas? Why do we want to beat down neighborhoods further by passively contributing to the blight?
Shoes in trees on college campuses are a good example of hanging shoes that clearly don’t correlate with anything problematic.
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