The architectural historian Iain Borden says the emergence of hostile architecture has its roots in 1990s urban design and public-space management. The emergence, he said, “suggested we are only republic citizens to the degree that we are either working or consuming goods directly.
Ben Quinn in The Guardian. Anti-homeless spikes are part of a wider phenomenon of ‘hostile architecture’
New urban design aims to influence behaviour and has been criticised as an attempt to exclude poor people (via protoslacker)
New urban design aims to influence behaviour and has been criticised as an attempt to exclude poor people (via protoslacker)