honolulu, well all of hawaii actually.

something like 80+ percent of texas cities ban them or are phasing them out with heavy new restrictions.

for example, in dallas, if you want a new billboard, you have to tear down 3. and new ones have placement and size restrictions.

houston is no longer allowing any new off premises signage including billboards. the only way to erect a new billboard is if it passes permitting and the company tears down one of their old ones.

and like i said, like 80% of texas towns across the state have heavy restrictions on new or outright ban them.

santa fe effectively has a ban on all off premises advertising which obviously includes billboards.

billboard are banned on highways in the entire country of Norway, including urban/suburban highways.

the entire state of vermont.

the entire state of maine, including cities.

all of washington dc, including georgetown.

Are these all laws passed in the last few months?

I've seen Billboards in Honolulu, Houston, Dallas, and Washington DC within the past 2 years. I haven't been to Santa Fe recently but they had billboards the last time I was there.

Sao Paulo

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...

There are many smaller billboards visible when you use Street View in Google maps. Sao Paulo may have fewer billboards, and no large billboards, but it still has billboards.

That is often the point: you don't ban all advertisement, but you heavily restrict it in size, quantity and location

Lived in London for about half my life - very few billboards.

This is flat out not true.

How can you say this about my experience? For example, in Wood Green, North London, I can only remember seeing a single billboard, on the side of an off-license. Where have you lived where they are all around the place?

Global alone have 56,000 billboards in London and they aren't even the largest.