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Tags in a Wellington car park, 2009

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Tags in a Wellington car park, 2009

Tags are a stylised written version of a person’s name or pseudonym. They are found throughout New Zealand, mainly in urban places. Spaces like this car-parking building in Wellington are often tagged, because they have blank concrete walls and are not much frequented by people at night-time.

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Kerryn Pollock, City styles – City communication and codes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24577/tags-in-a-wellington-car-park-2009 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 4 May 2010.