Facilitating activities with graffiti writers, street artists and community members can help promote reductions of problematic graffiti. For instance, examples from UK and Australia, illustrate how with the use of street art and collaboration of various actors, dysfunctional spaces can be turned into functional and safe public spaces, where various members of the communities can enjoy spending time in or using them as part of their communal route (Iveson, 2010; Austin, 2010; Toth, 2011; BBC News, 2014).
Brighton and Hove City Council (Leach and Barker, 2010) pointed out that greater collaboration with artists and with residents offered them a ‘win win’ situation, that in their experience, left less of a graffiti problem, less money to be spent on cleaning and more tourists attracted to the area.