ertain
environments convey a sense of transient anonymity in those who live or
behave in their midst. Where that happens, the people living in that
place do not have a sense of community. Vandalism and graffiti may be
interpreted as an individual's attempt at public notoriety in a society
that deindividuates him, that gives him no legitimate outlets for
personal recognition. Vandalism may be the attempt to have an impact on
one’s environment through destruction when doing so constructively does
not seem possible. Living in some big cities nibbles away at one of the
prized possessions of many average residents-- their personal identity
and uniqueness. In her classic work, Death and Life of Great American
Cities, ecologist Jane Jacobs tells us what it means to be an anonymous
person on the wrong side of the big city tracks.
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