Hostile architecture reinforces hostility - eviltoast

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.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    6·
    3 months ago

    And I feel sad about most pigeon protectors spikes too.

    Why design such a place in nature (buildings), that contact of the smallest bit of nature requires extra maintenance or add-ons.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      You feel bad for pigeon spikes and are asking why things that are built require maintenance or additions due to natural causes…? That seems patently obvious to me. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 months ago

        The question is why not design it to need less maintenance & be accommodating to animal and plants.

        Why some styles are chosen isn’t just art but often also economy pushing what’s profitable.

        • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          Mmk. I think maybe addressing the causes of the rampant and expanding unhoused population would be a good priority.

          • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
            5·
            3 months ago

            I was talking about pigeons & other nature, but I guess homeless people too.

            Why not create places for them or at least modify the places they use to better suit them.

            I’m don’t mean this as a solution, just that its dickish to not think about environment that is being created.