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		ekianjo on Oct 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A global movement to ban urban billboards > Safe for eyeballs ... in a single year, São Paulo removed 15,000 billboards, many of which were replaced by street art. so they replaced commercial crap by street art shite that never changes, and that is supposed to be an improvement for the eyes ? Seriously ?

rdtsc on Oct 12, 2015 [–]

I dunno, I'll take mediocre street art over high quality "Buy Samsung!" posters any day, but that is just me.

ekianjo on Oct 12, 2015 | [–]

City ads represent fashion, ongoing trends and so on. Without it, it looks like a dying place to me, a museum.

Of course, it depends how bad ads are in your country.

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