Governing Graffiti

For the first time, a book that talks about urban art from the perspective of public policies. How is urban art constructed in the city? How do public authorities look at street art? How do they regulate this practice, between repression and promotion? What are the challenges of the professionalization of artists? Based on examples and interviews conducted in Paris and Berlin, the two most important cities in Europe at the origin of the development of graffiti, the author offers an analysis from three different sociological angles: urban sociology, political sociology and the sociology of art.