Purpose The purpose of this paper is to trace how the relationship between city
governments and citizens has developed over time with the introduction of urban informatics …

In this paper, we critically review the literature on graffiti and street art with a view to bridging
the divide between the stark extremities of public graffiti discourse. We make the case for …

What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime? Since the late 1990s, a
distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of …

In cities such as Sydney, a succession of wars on graffiti has produced a moral geography of
artistic practice. At the same time, the rise to prominence of creative cities discourses and the …

This paper traces the development of feminist geopolitics as a distinct analytical,
epistemological, and methodological approach in geography. Feminist geopolitics is …

This chapter offers a brief sketch of the processes that are impacting upon the production of
urban public space in capitalist cities. It provides some brief examples of how the …

This is a volume dedicated to graffiti and street art. More precisely, this book is a testament to
the multiple modes by which graffiti and street art have changed our ways of seeing …

Modern graffiti has become a universal urban phenomenon, an almost ubiquitous feature of
towns and cities across the world. This paper will situate the practice and production of …

Recent criminological research has engaged with images of crime such that there
increasingly appears to exist a need for a specifically visual criminology. Within visual …

In many cities both rich and poor, new forms of outdoor advertising are emerging with
potentially significant implications for the nature of the urban public realm. Public–private …