Reshape your view of public space, break the invisible walls around the visible ones —

Jeff Ferrell wrote a book about graffiti and politics and spaces. There's a transcendent joy in seeing a small, to you, part of the world unfold into a whole thing with meaning inside. Especially if the something is criminalised.

Graffiti artists themselves sometimes say that writing changed their view of spaces — even more. Places become potentially accessible (or, at least, a 'how did that other artist do that' kind of accessible), there are expressions and conversations going on around a city that you'd never noticed before. Everything becomes so alive.

…the very nature of urban infrastructure and the ease with which it can be repurposed for designing, planning, and committing crimes. The city itself can be an accomplice in acts entirely unrelated to the infrastructure in question.

Geoff Manaugh writes this on BLDGBLOG tangentially-about viewing a city's architecture and infrastructure through the lens of how crime might be committed within it — mostly burglary, as in 'A Burglar's Guide to the City', the title of one of Geoff's books (that I've never read yet.)

There's a thing on the blog about Die Hard and its portrayal of 'inappropriate use of space'. (Imagine all possible ways of moving around a skyscraper. Now suppose you're not bound by a need to leave it intact.)

('Queer use' more broadly is something Sara Ahmed wrote about. It's a dance among language, her book is, twirling around words like banisters on a particularly energetic flight down stairs.)

— but I haven't managed yet to hear the invisible walls sing. Maybe it's for the best; they do trap people.