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Several comments from people who live there, all strongly condemning the measure for various unintended side-effects, all downvoted to oblivion. Whether it’s e
by zaroth 7y ago
Several comments from people who live there, all strongly condemning the measure for various unintended side-effects, all downvoted to oblivion.
Whether it’s encouraging graffiti, removing important light sources which the city did not pay to replace, destroying culturally significant displays, or promoting sterilized monotony in the surroundings, it seems there are several good reasons why outright banning of advertisements might not be the utopian vision some claim it to be.
Being surprised to learn about viewpoints which contradict the popular narrative is the best you can hope for from a comment section, if the critique is offered in good faith.
- ufo 7y agoI think it is worth mentioning that in São Paulo people tend to use the word "grafite" for artful murals and drawings and "pixação" for the stuff that is seen as vandalism. (there are some grey areas but that is the jist of it)
- personlurking 7y agoOne of those grey areas is that there's a large portion of people who do pixação that see their art as an art form. As an aside, I remember a short Brazilian documentary on São Paulo's "reverse graffiti" (doing a drawing or mural by skillfully removing dirt from a dirty wall, so that the white spaces create an image) where the police detained the artist doing it, despite the fact he was literally cleaning the wall.
- fiatjaf 7y agoI could see homicide as an art form and it would still be wrong.