Sao Paulo: The city that scrubbed all its ads

Here’s an interesting tidbit: In 2007, the city of Sao Paulo eliminated every semblance of advertisement from the large city metropolis—part of a bigger effort by its mayor to make the city, instead of the ads, the focal point of beauty. The video above gives just a taste of how the Clean City Law has transformed the fourth biggest metropolis in the world.
Read the full story at Web Urbanist for more pictures and background.