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appalachiablue

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Fri Nov 15, 2024, 07:42 AM Nov 15

NYC Anti-Homeless Streets, Hostile Architecture, Housing Crisis🔻Tackling Homelessness in Europe


- Wiki. HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide behavior. It often targets people who use or rely on public space more than others, such as youth, poor people, and homeless people, by restricting the physical behaviours they can engage in.

The term hostile architecture is often associated with items like "anti-homeless spikes" – studs embedded in flat surfaces to make sleeping on them uncomfortable and impractical. This form of architecture is most commonly found in densely populated and urban areas. Other measures include sloped window sills to stop people sitting; benches with armrests positioned to stop people lying on them; water sprinklers that spray intermittently...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

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NYC Anti-Homeless Streets, Hostile Architecture, Housing Crisis🔻Tackling Homelessness in Europe (Original Post) appalachiablue Nov 15 OP
Tackling Homelessness in Europe, A More 'Radical' Approach appalachiablue Nov 15 #1
Best practices, go figure. nt Prairie_Seagull Nov 15 #2
It's not just street benches. Before Covid I would prepare meals and drive around to in2herbs Nov 15 #3

in2herbs

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3. It's not just street benches. Before Covid I would prepare meals and drive around to
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 12:27 PM
Nov 15

hand the meals out to the homeless. That is when it struck me that our highway infrastructure is also designed anti-homeless. When I would try to access (by car) the street corner where the homeless person was standing it was impossible to do.

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