Spiderman the Traffic Controller
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Spider-Man ended up with a surprisingly mundane day job here, painted on both sides of a traffic-signal controller. Louisville has since created a formal program for turning these otherwise anonymous metal cabinets into public art, although I couldn’t tie this particular box to that project or find an artist credit for it. Wilder Park did have a concentrated burst of neighborhood-led placemaking in 2023, when residents worked with Center for Neighborhoods on a Better Block project featuring public-space improvements, art, music and neighborhood history.