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Protecting urban heritage with outdoor advertising!?

posted by Daniel Steyn on 11 January 2012

I came across this article, from the New York Times again recently. It provides some useful insight into the complexities and difficulties surrounding the restoration of the historic built environment in Venice. Notably in this instance the massive...

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Smart move? Paris reduces maximum billboard sizes to combat visual clutter

posted by Daniel Steyn on 18 November 2011

A recent FEPE newsletter included the interesting news that:

“Large, imposing advertising billboards are to be banned from the centre of Paris under a new plan by the city council to cut the size of ad hoardings by a third in the next two years.”

In addition to the reduction in allowable size of billboards, hoardings...

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