Graffiti-a new guide to prevention and removal

摘要

WHETHER YOU THINK graffiti is'cool art'or simple urban scrawl it is generally accepted that strategies are necessary to prevent illegal or unauthorised graffiti appearing, and to manage the graffiti once it has occurred. SAI Global has recently published a new guide to the prevention and removal of graffiti to assist Government departments, local councils, community organisations, transport operators and anyone concerned with graffiti management. The word graffiti was used by the Romans to describe writing on a wall. Most modern graffiti, is 'hip hop graffiti' so called because of its association with the hip hop music and dance culture, and includes 'tags' (letters or simple initials in different styles, colours and mediums, depicting the graffiti writer's signature or pseudonym) and more elaborate 'pieces' (short for masterpiece). Other forms of graffiti include political, social, humorous and racist graffiti.