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Book Review: Visual Pollution: Advertising, Signage and Environmental Quality by Adriana Portella

Anciaes, PR; (2014) Book Review: Visual Pollution: Advertising, Signage and Environmental Quality by Adriana Portella. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/05/2... Green open access

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Abstract

Visual pollution is the poor cousin of urban environmental research. Often dismissed as a policy issue because it is difficult to measure and depends on people’s tastes, it is also subject to far fewer regulations than more tangible environmental problems such as litter, air pollution, and noise. Nevertheless, books such as Marc Augé’s Non-places (1995) and Naomi’s Klein’s No Logo (2000) have raised awareness to the visual quality of the built environment and inspired the work of researchers and activists. For example, during the 1990s, social movements such as Reclaim the Streets held demonstrations to highlight the factors affecting people’s experience of public spaces. More recently, projects such as the Billboard Liberation Front and Brandalism have used “guerrilla art” to challenge the encroachment of consumer culture on public space.

Type: Digital scholarly resource
Title: Book Review: Visual Pollution: Advertising, Signage and Environmental Quality by Adriana Portella
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/05/2...
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article published under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
Keywords: Visual pollution, Urban environment, Place, Urban planning, Urban design
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091699
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