The Mayor of Budapest has convened a conference on the new anti-graffiti measures of the city. I was invited to give a talk, in which I tried to argue that graffiti is a like fever. It is not the malady itself. It is a sign of deep running problems in society. Fighting against graffiti is like trying to treat cancer with antidepressants.  Fruitless.

The whole ppt is here. (76Mbyte)