Urban cleaning
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Society
Tokyo artist Ken Sobajima is cleaning up Shibuya’s graffiti, one wall at a time
Clean and Art is helping to keep Tokyo’s streets free from graffiti. Monocle joins the team restoring order to the urban landscape.
Environment
Splash for trash
Our correspondent pulls on his wetsuit to go on the trail of lake waste in Sweden.
Affairs
Perfect fix
Cows on the loose? Canals used as dumps? Urban life can throw up some unique – and bizarre – challenges. Meet the people charged with fixing gritty problems in our cities.
Design
Clean team
The Green Bird team of Tokyo is an army of young people, with cool haircuts and bibs supplied by Nike. cleaning up their city. Picking up litter has never been sexier.
