Street Art,

on a giant scale,

the government of Mexico recently collaborated with a group of local street artists called Germen Crew to paint a 20,000 square meter mural across the facades of 209 homes in the district of Palmitas in Pachuca, Mexico, before the crew arrived the hillside town looked like this above,

the project was intended to bring about visual and social transformation by temporarily providing jobs, above the finished town after the crew left,

also according to some reports, a by-product of the project in some way reduced crime and violence in the neighbourhood, perhaps by fostering community spirit? in any event street art on a grand scale.