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Hostile architecture

Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good start
This anti-homeless bench in Bournemouth will hopefully soon be a thing of the past
John Bird

Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good start

Is Norwich City Council's move to end hostile architecture a sign of things to come?
Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: 'It's like battery farming'
Artist Stuart Semple
Art

Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: 'It's like battery farming'

Shocking art project spotlights 'insidious' anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture
Poster of a homeless person pierced by spkes designed to deter rough sleepers, known as hostile architecture
Homelessness

Shocking art project spotlights 'insidious' anti-homeless spikes and hostile architecture

Council's £200,000 plan to block off arches used by rough sleepers slammed as 'tarting up' city
Homelessness

Council's £200,000 plan to block off arches used by rough sleepers slammed as 'tarting up' city

How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class
Urban design

How gentrification and hostile architecture have pushed out the working class

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
5 ways anti-homeless architecture is used to exclude people from public spaces
anti-homeless architecture
Homelessness

5 ways anti-homeless architecture is used to exclude people from public spaces