...okay this is pure sadism.
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Is it bad that I'd be a little more okay with Hostile Architecture if it didn't look so bad? The aesthetic itself is so blocky and spiky that it ruins the scenery, which is supposed to be the point of making it harder for homelessness to sleep on the property.
Seriously, those are the least unattractive one I've found so far. Also as a matter of form and function, a lot of these designs were clearly not made with fatter people in mind.
Yes that is bad. This shouldn't be tolerated at any level.
A lot of how people overtime feel about where they are is a reflection of the aesthetic of the place, and this aesthetic is just going to push people to feel more claustrophobic or otherwise less at ease from that much less of a smooth look to the place.
This serves a double function of not only keeping homeless people from laying down but also to stop skateboarding on the edge.
I was more recently turned on to a channel called Not Just Bikes, which has had me questioning a lot more over how the immediate appearance of a place overtime could affect it's surrounding people, almost like emotional radiation from things like shapes and color. It's legitimately a thing.
I was always told, growing up, that the suburbs (of Canada) are a good place to raise children. But I've come to appreciate the importance of independence for the a child's development, something that's nearly impossible in today's car-dependent suburbs. It was pretty clear that suburbia was not right for our kids, so we moved to the Netherlands instead.How they handle their trash (3 min) is also pretty fucking nice, plus the sidewalk logic's superior to the US's car dependent designs (4 min).
I seen the continuous sidewalk one, it's a fucking great idea. Brutalist architecture is also shit and ruins everything around it with how goddamn awful it looks.
They missed one
a tiny homeless mouse could rest there quite comfortably
Yeah... this isn't too different from how some businesses keep birds off of their property.
I wonder how this would look to future historians that dig it up?
Teacher: "...so they built spikes to deter homeless folks."
Student: "Wait, so they didn't always shoot homeless people on sight for being dirty? How intriguing."
Teacher: "Indeed, this transition period in the early 2000s was most interesting."
