Hostile architecture


Nature

Hostile architecture is an ostensibly new feature of the securitised urban landscape. It is used for social control to discourage undesired behaviour in public and urban spaces, such as implanting spikes and studs in the ground to prevent the homeless from sleeping in otherwise unrestricted space.


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