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, ...

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 ...

Many critics have blasted the move as anti-homeless and an example of what is sometimes called "hostile architecture," a design strategy meant to limit the use of public spaces. Other terms used by ...

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 ...