Is urban graffiti a force for good or evil?
12 January 2015
Athlyn Cathcart-Keays writes for The Guardian on the debate over urban graffiti, drawing on the recent Graffiti Sessions conference co-hosted by the UCL Urban Laboratory
![Graffiti Sessions street art Graffiti Sessions street art](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/sites/urban_lab/files/styles/large_image/public/Screen_Shot_2015-01-12_at_16.16.56.png?itok=dxK90sj9)
The article focuses on the response of local councils and city-wide governments to tagging and street art.
Image: Street art commissioned during Graffiti Sessions conference at UCL. Credit: Jordan Rowe