These features of urban life, and the many designs just like them, are what’s known as “hostile architecture.” They are deliberate attempts to deter or prevent people—typically, ...

These are examples of a form of city planning that the general public has coined as hostile architecture. Hostile architecture, sometimes called defensive architecture, is a method of urban design ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. In metro areas today, park benches are becoming an endangered species. Hostile architecture is the name urban engineers give to public space designs that ...

Armrests fitted onto a public bench where homeless people are known to sleep have been branded as "hostile architecture" towards rough sleepers. Oxford City Council said it was removing bars ...

The Wallich said so-called hostile architecture makes life more difficult for homeless people and "pushes them to the peripheries". A petition against it was signed by 120 people and debated by a ...