This bench at the train stop has nice clean boards. This is at the LaSalle/ Van Buren stop in Chicago.
This bench at the train stop has nice clean boards. This is at the LaSalle/ Van Buren stop in Chicago.
But it has a middle separator, perfect example of hostile architecture. For the uninitiated: the armrest in the middle's only function is to stop people lying on the bench. Homeless people can't sleep here, we finally solved the problem of homelessness, hurray!
Removing it and having a homeless person sleep on it ALSO does not solve homelessness.
You are right. But that does not mean we have to make it even harder for them
But it does solve sleeping on the wet ground
Much better for them to sleep in a tent or a sleeping bag in a doorway, right?
Only hostile if overweight and homeless. Otherwise it's just a handy restraint to keep you from rolling off then bench whilst napping.
Why can't we build things which are not deliberately hostile to someone? Why we should make someone's life even more miserable? It's a bench. It's purpose should be to give some rest for ANY people, regardless of financial status or weight.
To see it in context the opposite of hostile architecture is called universal design.
for all the bad rap chicago gets, it is a very clean city.
Oh hey! Thats my stop :)