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Invited graffiti: Solution or enabling for unwanted tags?

I've believed for a while now that municipal graffiti management (and it can only ever be managed, never eliminated) must involve three prongs: 1) Enforcement, with number of arrests more important than length of punishment, 2) Rapid cleanup (at taxpayers' expense, so crime victims aren't punished again by the state), and 3) More invited graffiti in both public and private venues.Here's a roundup of recent news and blog items focused on that oft-ignored third theme of invited graffiti, which has long been the most underutilized part of that three-pronged approach:ATX Graffiti has pictures of legal graffiti commissioned for the SXSW music festival on East 5th Street in East Austin. Clearly more talented, prolific graff writers are willing to put up more elaborate, creative work when they know the project will ride for a while...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 01, 2009 (boomark / email).