Where are the graffiti capitals of the world, today?
HC: The urban art movement of graffiti writing first took place in New York City at the turn of the sixties and seventies, which was the beginning of a major urban crisis that led to New York’s financial bankruptcy in 1974. The styles and techniques of graffiti writing developed in New York throughout the whole decade of the seventies. At the beginning of the eighties, the movement began to travel to Europe and later to South America and Asia in the nineties. Today, graffiti has become a worldwide phenomenon. It is particularly dynamic in some of the major cities of the world, such as São Paulo, Santiago (Chile), Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Los Angeles.
