#Hostile Architecture

[rabbitrah]

"Le repos du fakir" (2003), Stéphane Argillet and Gilles Paté

[whereserpentswalk]

Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...

[theconcealedweapon]

This is bullshit.

Wheelchair users are not looking for a place to sit. There's no reason why a wheelchair user would have to specifically sit in the middle of a bench.

This is anti-homeless hostile architecture attempting to disguise itself as progressive.

[luetta]

[boreal-sea]

I went to NYC over Christmas break and the one thing I felt horrible about was the fact that there was nowhere for my mother, who has bad knees, to sit. Nowhere. Not a single bench. She was able to sit in the restaurant, in the theater, and on the train. Those were the only fucking seats in the whole fucking city.

I hate anti-homeless efforts. I hate the elimination of public spaces. There were millions of people walking around NYC that week and not a single one of them was able to sit.

[elliottnotyet]

Day 25 of Marchirp: city birds. Heres a pigeon that built its nest using bird spikes

[Image ID: pigeon in a nest in bird spikes under a light with a nighttime city background. End ID]

[cy-cyborg]

Who was the genius who decided "you know what all Australian disabled toilets need? Frosted glass doors!"

Every disabled toilet built here (or at least in NSW) in the last few years have weird frosted glass doors, WHY? Who looked at a public toilet and thought "you know what makes me feel secure while taking a shit in public? Frosted glass!" And it's only the disabled ones. Occasionally family rooms will have them too, but men and women's toilets still have normal, non-see-through doors? Why did we get this?

And like, you can't actually see through them beyond a very vague, blurry shape, it's very heavy frosting, but it's still transparent enough where I can see people walking past. Surely no one wants that right? I'm not alone in this?

I'm pretty sure the reason they do it is, "subtle" hostile architecture to stop people "misusing" them (subtle as in it doesn't immediately stand out to people who don't use these toilets) and I already hate that excuse, but surely I'm not the only one who sees the issue with that plan? If it's see through enough to deter people from having sex in them or using them for drugs or anything like that (and all the other bs excuses people usually make for hostile architecture), it's also not really suitable for it's intended use anymore??

[geekysteven]

[anarcho-catboyism]

As cute as those benches are that has a statue sitting next to you, understand those are a form of Hostile Architecture made to negatively impact the lives of the homeless.

[solar-sunnyside-up]

Id rather glowing pathways with stones in them lined with herbs and food

Id rather cool and comfy bus stations with swings built to be sat in

Id rather color and glowing lights!

[saltandanxietychips]

I think this video makes really great points and is such an easy way to introduce hostile architecture to people before we drag them down the socialism path

[mostlysignssomeportents]

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[rednblacksalamander]

[fffmpreg]

"My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well.

But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life.

People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. And the gardens, too.

Not many gardens any more to sit around in. And look at the furniture. No rocking chairs any more. They're too comfortable. Get people up and running around"

-Ray Bradbury

[tarragonthedragon]

my political stance is "let people sit" and I'm not remotely kidding