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Hostile Architecture or Smart Design?

For your assigned slide, please answer the following questions:
  1. What is the explicit/stated purpose of the featured piece(s)?
  2. What specific characteristics or features make this an example of hostile architecture?
  3. Who or what does this apply to or target? How do you know?
Download Hostile_Architecture.pdf
For more examples, here is an article from the New York Times about this development in New York City.

One man who beat hostile architecture:

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"Sociology is the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see" — Sam Richards

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