transcript [text overlaid on several pictures of benches and outside windowsills. the benches have bars, or gaps to prevent someone from sleeping on them.

text reads “Ban anti-homeless arctithecture”]

sauce: https://mastodon.social/@AnarchistArt/112901196516297447

Hostile architecture is among the symptoms of the hostile modern city, where neighbours never say hi, and people die on the streets as people walk passivly by.

  • @[email protected]
    8•4 months ago

    The one on the lower left seems less hostile and more just stupid. Unless the goal is to prevent the doors being rammed by shopping carts or allowing wheelchair access.

    • @WoahWoah
      6•4 months ago

      The one I’ve seen retract.They come up in the evening. You can still walk through them if needed, but, yes, they make shopping carts and wheelchairs unusable when they are active, but they’re often in apartment entrance and other places that don’t use shopping carts.

        • @WoahWoah
          2•4 months ago

          I’m aware. You will find that wheelchairs don’t go over sleeping bodies very well either. When they are found at apartment doors in major cities, usual tenants have an access card that will lower the pylons for entrance.

          And, to be honest, I’ve seen people sleeping between the poles, so. Whatever I guess.

    • Nougat
      3•4 months ago

      That’s a retail storefront that’s got no tenant in it.