Signs, billboards, and graffiti a social-spatial discourse in a regenerated council estate

Residents within a council housing area in Stirling, Scotland, which is undergoing regeneration, took photos for an auto-driven photo-elicitation study. There was limited guidance on what images to capture. were simply invited focus the neighbourhood. An unexpected finding significance participating residents gave linguistic and semiotic landscape such as signs, billboards graffiti. Within interview, it became apparent that participants considered signs part of expression spatial social discourse. Therefore, placed there by powerful actors developers understood scrutinised their claims lived reality residents. Also, graffiti context with social-spatial dialectic being inscribed community underlying sectarian