Pete Ashton has reminded me of something I thoroughly enjoyed last month and would encourage you to get along too. This years first Lower Eastside Dialogue was on architecture. I learnt a lot, met some good people and enjoyed myself.

The next two are absolutely up my street, with next week about digital endeavours and the modern city and the following month about heritage and regeneration, which squarely fits my hat as a trustee of the Birmingham Conservation Trust. You can find details at this post, from Pete who I met in the flesh for the first time at the last dialogue. Next week’s is in quite small venue so book if you want to go.
There – any old excuse to use a picture of one of Birmingham’s architectural treaures: Curzon Street Station.
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Last month I posed a question about graffiti in Barcelona. Why did it seem that the taggers were avoiding tagging the fabric of buildings. Was this a communal understanding or something else?

Roger Tallada has come up with an answer. He says it’s because of an intense long term cleaning policy by the city council and points us to a before and after film on youtube. Thanks Roger. It still leaves me wondering if the cleaning policy has changed the behaviour of taggers (street artists) on a more permanent basis or whether the cleaning squads simply swoop on anything that appears?

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