Look at wall art Auckland! A long time ago, finding paintings on bridges, alleys, and school buildings was considered graffiti. But not anymore.
As the gentrification of major cities becomes the norm, towns folks everywhere are fighting back by supporting local artists to build murals that show how it was in the old days. As a result, life-size drawings of communal situations are sprouting up like mushrooms. In fact, city council meetings are getting increasingly preoccupied with ways and means to preserve the old ways.
City funding may even be available for painters steeped in the tradition of their locale or the place where they grew up in. All of a sudden, people are starting to think like Europe. Old buildings, statues, and even dwellings of common people of eons past should be preserved for posterity.
Bring in the condos and new office buildings with their glass walls and stainless steel foundations. Just don’t forget to balance it out by having windows to the collective past.