Street art gets cleaned up faster than it gets appreciated in most cities, and that's a cultural loss. Our town spent $40,000 last year removing murals from brick walls near the old market, yet those same walls have seen three coffee shops close because nobody visits the area anymore. Some pieces were genuinely ugly or tagged without permission, but the really good ones made a dead neighborhood feel alive. Local councils treat any spray paint as vandalism, when a little curation could turn these alleys into spots tourists actually stop at. Are we really better off with blank concrete and boarded windows?