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I'm surprised by all the naysayers popping up in this comment thread. Back when I still lived in São Paulo I remember that the Cidade Limpa law was extremely, a

• whatever_dude 7y ago
  It was. I worked in advertisement and still can't ignore how terrible the city was with rampant billboards. Attempting to regulate it was not having any effect thanks to easy ways the law could be circumvented by the rich and (legally) powerful. Banning them outright was a breath of fresh air.
• soneca 7y ago
  It was and, generically speaking, "no one" thinks twice that it was not a good law all these years after it. But HN attracts a lot of contrarian thinking people. Which is a good thing I think, even if in this matter I am with the majority