One of the coolest things I saw while visiting Melbourne last year was the flourishing streetart and colourfull graffiti burners found in the little lanes next to the big mainstreets all over the city. These lanes are also appreciated by loads of tourists, and openminded people in general, but there is now a big controversy in Australia after the lanes with graffiti where reproduced in a mini-version of the city at Disneyland in Florida. Local politicians are outraged because the reproduction was supported by tourist organisations and in the little secluded world of politicians, it brings blight on the city. Read more here. Here at ILG we can only support more free spaces for art and appeal to politicians to open their eyes and get with the times…