I can&#x27;t imagine Tokyo or Taipei without large billboards and other signage draping over whole buildings.<p>As others have said, I neither miss them nor dislike them.  The one thing I will say is that some do cover over otherwise useful windows --which since covered by advertising become useless and wonder how the inhabitants deal with diminished sunlight --but on the other hand you have places like France where you are (were?) taxed on window count on your flat and so people would board them up, so as not to count as &quot;windows&quot;.