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reddalo • today at 1:32 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

That's good: billboards ruin our cities.


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Terr_ • today at 3:37 PM

Washington State has a clever balance: Signs visible on the highway can only advertise things people can actually get on the property below.

So it's not a hard ban, but it kneecaps the business model behind forests of billboards showing whatever the highest bidder wants.

kown7 • today at 1:41 PM

worst case scenario we get Tokyo style trucks (apparently called koukoku torakku).

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comrade1234 • today at 1:46 PM

The billboards here, in Zurich at least, are quite small and tasteful. The design museum even has exhibits at times of them.

For example: https://monocle.com/design/how-zurichs-poster-culture-has-tu...

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