Konstantinos Avramidis is a PhD candidate in Architecture by Design at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Myrto Tsilimpounidi is a Marie Curie Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Bratislava, Slovakia.
'This essay collection yields illuminating insights into graffiti and its close cousin street art. With a globally-diverse range of sites, and contributions from leading academics, this is essential reading for anyone wishing to better understand one of the most distinctive features of 21st century urbanism.' - Iain Borden, University College London, U.K 'With contributions by authors from diverse geographical and disciplinary backgrounds, this book pushes for new ways to understand, study and write about graffiti and street art. In doing so, this volume constitutes an important step towards breaking down disciplinary boundaries and establishing street art studies as a multifaceted academic discipline in its own right.' - Peter Bengtsen, Lund University, Sweden 'Graffiti and Street Art is a competent book, covering important, diverse and emerging issues in the field of graffiti and street art. Chapters are written by both well known scholars of the subject and emerging voices in the field. The interdisciplinary nature of the book, along with the fact it theoretically explores unexamined subjects such as graffiti in online environments, and its geographical coverage of underexplored urban contexts (e.g., Sao Paulo, Athens, Nicosia) is worth noting.' - Jeffrey Ian Ross, University of Baltimore, U.S.A