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Would be cool if these spaces (or some of them) were given to local artists to use.

Today they actually are, São Paulo is famous for it's street art. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/world/americas/brazil-sao...

There’s way more ugly graffiti scribbles than street art there, sadly.

That's basically what happened, just google São Paulo street art.