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ABSTRACT Wall graffiti can be indicators of attitudes, behavioral dispositions, and social processes in settings where direct measurement is difficult. The autographed inscriptions of inner city "graffiti kings"in Philadelphia are analyzed in terms of their style, motivation, and preferred setting. Graffiti written by teenage gangs delineate their turf or area of control; their content may indicate contested space and gang violence. Graffiti in an ethnic neighborhood identify tension zones related to social change.
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GraffitiEthnic groupStyle (visual arts)CriminologySociologySpace (punctuation)GeographySocial psychologyPsychologyAnthropologyVisual artsArchaeologyArtLinguistics
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- 1974
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- 64
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 491-505
- Citations
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David Ley,
Roman Cybriwsky
(1974).
URBAN GRAFFITI AS TERRITORIAL MARKERS∗.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
, 64
(4)
, 491-505.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1974.tb00998.x
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- 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1974.tb00998.x