[Tagging] Benches and hostile architecture

[Alan Mackie]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, 01:48 Paul Allen, <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 01:27, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On 24. Aug 2020, at 01:45, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > It's hostile to public urinators.
>>
>> agreed, but isn’t publicly urinating an offense anyway?
>
>
> In most jurisdictions.  So is sleeping on a public bench in many
> jurisdictions.
> Countermeasures are hostile to those who would otherwise commit
> offences.  Which is why the wikipedia article considers uncomfortable
> benches and walls that discourage urination to be hostile architecture.
>
> Speed limits are also hostile to people who like to drive fast for example.
>>
>
> I'm not seriously suggesting we map them this way but speed bumps are
> technically hostile architecture. :)
>
Most I encounter are hostile to the speed you're meant to be going, not
just to people exceeding that speed.

Really quite annoying actually.

>
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> Paul
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