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I’d prefer if we banned outdoor public advertising altogether. Some town in Brazil did it, was it São Paulo?
by user3939382 4y ago
I’d prefer if we banned outdoor public advertising altogether. Some town in Brazil did it, was it São Paulo?
- heavyset_go 4y agoBillboards are banned in Vermont, Maine, Hawaii and Alaska, all of which have absolutely beautiful landscapes.
- _huayra_ 4y agoSanta Cruz, CA, has only one billboard iirc, coming over hwy 17 from the Bay Area. I never appreciated how this muted the pace of advertising exposure until I spent time in other parts of the US where such things are less regulated.
- Eleison23 4y ago"Welcome to Murder Capital, USA"?
- twelve40 4y agowhat? santa cruz? murder capital?
- JamesianP 4y agoMultiple serial killers killed a bunch of people there at the same time in the 70's, which gained them the murder capital label. And this was spray-painted on a billboard in Lost Boys which was filmed in Santa Cruz, though of course the cause there was vampires.
- revolvingocelot 4y agoI think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road"
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoJust a wee town of 12M eh?
- vba616 4y agoc.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech) `Other examples "The Pond", for the Atlantic Ocean ("across the pond") '
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoMayhaps, but we can never know for sure now.
- quickthrower2 4y agoPeople call London "town". Just a phrase. They also call some small places "city" too.
- mertd 4y agoWhat is the definition? Is aircraft livery outdoor public advertising? How about highway signage showing which businesses are available on an exit? How far from a store before a store sign crosses the threshold to become an ad?
- colordrops 4y agoI'm sure we can come to legal agreement as a society. We've legislated on far more esoteric and complex subjects.
- dmitriid 4y ago> How about highway signage showing which businesses are available on an exit You don't need that signage. Standard "food, lodging, gas station at next exit" signs exist. In Sweden sides of the road (10 meters or so) belong to the road administration and advertising and billboards in that space are prohibited because they interfere with road signage. It's amazing.
- returnInfinity 4y agoBanned in Bangalore, India.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoMan, I fucking wish. I always wonder sometimes, did ancient civilizations have advertising? I think I read it was banned even.
- DaiPlusPlus 4y ago> did ancient civilizations have advertising? Yes: https://blogs.transparent.com/latin/ancient-roman-gladiator-ads/ https://blogs.transparent.com/latin/ancient-roman-gladiator-... https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/spectaclesintheromanworldsourcebook/chapter/marketing-and-advertising/ https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/spectaclesintheromanworldsour... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/lwecg4/were_there_really_advertisements_and_product/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/lwecg4/were_...
- wodenokoto 4y agoI do think Times Square and broadway has a certain charm. I also loved the density of the neon signs in Mong Kok. There’s is also something charming about the ridiculousness of using Burj Khalifa as a bill board. On the whole, I wouldn’t choose allowing advertisement in public just to save those places but I would love to have my cake and eat it too.
- shmde 4y agoNo wonder billboards and neon signs are like an infestation in concrete jungles. Thats what it takes to make a place like that look more interesting. What a time to be alive.
- heavyset_go 4y agoI'd like to think there's an alternate timeline where instead of ads lighting up Times Square, it's art that lights it up.