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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Metadata
Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Content quality
Unpresentable
Language
English
D7NID
230555
Last update
Oct 4, 2020