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Lisbon’s Government Allowed Street Artists To Paint Graffiti On The City Walls And I Captured The Glorious Change In Scenery
The so-called 'street art' in Lisbon was getting out of hand. After a long period of cleanups, Lisbon City Council finally decided to acknowledge graffiti and urban art as a legitimate form of creative expression and facilitate, support and institutionalize it.
And this is the result! Lisbon became a much better place to take a walk or explore.
Things were getting out of control
You could wake up with your van like this
Things were definitely getting totally out of control
Until one day, urban art became sponsored by the City Council. Nowadays, you're free to express your creativity on the city walls and beautiful paintings are popping up all over the city
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Stella Rose 6 years ago
It's my dream to live in a city where you're free to make art everywhere you go!
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Gobitha Thavarajah 6 years ago
This is me when I want to give up but also want to hold on at the same time!
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Rodras Burton (Submission author) 6 years ago
Same city, different place Reply6-5bc...844117.jpg 
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love life you only live once 6 years ago
this perfectly captures the love between mother and baby! so cute! :)
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love life you only live once 6 years ago
wow i wish i could do this but i would probably fail terribly
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Michael Doyle 4 years ago
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Lisbon was pristine until austerity and half a million Portuguese fled the country to find work. Through the early 2000s, Lisbon was quaint, ramshackle in parts, but with enormous monies being spent on renovation and preservation. There was very little to be found on the city's walls other than original paint and tile. It was absolutely beautiful. Now, because of parents who can't control their children and vandals who pretend to be artists, the city and much of its local and commuter transit system is covered with gang tagging and protest graffiti. So much of it that they City Council just gave in, because they couldn't afford to clean it off anymore, and tried to turn it all into a tourist attraction. That's heart-breaking and pretty disgusting. These big murals are not what Lisbon looks like. Wall after wall filthy with gang tags and low-rent graffiti is how Lisbon has ended up. It's a total desecration of the city and its residents.
Michael Doyle 4 years ago
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Lisbon was pristine until austerity and half a million Portuguese fled the country to find work. Through the early 2000s, Lisbon was quaint, ramshackle in parts, but with enormous monies being spent on renovation and preservation. There was very little to be found on the city's walls other than original paint and tile. It was absolutely beautiful. Now, because of parents who can't control their children and vandals who pretend to be artists, the city and much of its local and commuter transit system is covered with gang tagging and protest graffiti. So much of it that they City Council just gave in, because they couldn't afford to clean it off anymore, and tried to turn it all into a tourist attraction. That's heart-breaking and pretty disgusting. These big murals are not what Lisbon looks like. Wall after wall filthy with gang tags and low-rent graffiti is how Lisbon has ended up. It's a total desecration of the city and its residents.
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