It’s terrible that they spend the taxpayer’s money to do this.
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Hostile architecture is pretty dystopian.
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They do it in certain areas in my country too.
I think they don’t want homeless people to gather, they are often drunk or high.
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They also don’t want tourists taking pics of the arc de triomphe with homeless dudes sleeping nearby.
The description says banks and “representarive places”
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True but disguising it like that is kinda messed up.
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Kind of psychopathic tbh…
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This right here is an entire thesis if you’re into Urban Sociology.
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There’s not enough low-access shelters or housing programs for the homeless where i live. True, a lot of them are drunks or drug abusers, but you can’t treat an addiction easily when they’re just struggling to find a warm place to sleep. I can understand how a person would want to use substances to “escape” their circumstances. Last year, 50 unhoused people in Anchorage died outside. And nobody wants to have warming centers built in “their” neighborhood cuz of the increased crime and loss of property values. We really need to rethink our priorities as people.
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Well said @WhiteRaven
@Schztuna Interesting. I don’t see anything to debate in a thesis here… I feel it’s just wrong lol 
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Oh for sure, no debate— it’s defos hostile and meant to send a firm message to the homeless.
My city has those kinds of benches too— you wouldn’t believe the designs they can come up with just to stop a tired person from napping, sad lol.
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They made the postal boxes in my City with a graffiti style pattern…just so the taggers wouldn’t paint over them…no point…they are already tagged.
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It is hostile and cruel and disgusting a bench.
In Germany I think they have pods to sleep in for homeless with a radio and fits two people and gets cleaned after they leave.
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