Outdoor Poster Boys or Visual Polluters?
Few who visit or live in France can ignore JCDecaux, the name that is synonymous with outdoors or, in the view of some, grossly polluting it. For from the moment one drives or flies into France – home-base of JCDecaux, these days a powerful multinational business — it becomes very evident who owns every bus [...]
Activists Tarnish and Tarp Billboards
Much of France’s lush landscape remains an unspoiled scenic delight but some urban areas are suffocating from billboard blight, urban sprawl and growing planning chaos. Now Fourth Friday activists and others are fighting to change this. The latest focal point for urban guerrilla protest is Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) where a group opposed to the carpet of [...]
