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Hostile architecture, the Glossary

Hostile architecture is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide behavior.^[1]

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Anti-homelessness legislation can take two forms: legislation that aims to help and re-house homeless people; and legislation that is intended to send homeless people to homeless shelters compulsorily, or to criminalize homelessness and begging. Hostile architecture and Anti-homelessness legislation are discrimination against the homeless.

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Anti-trespass panels

Anti-trespass panels (ATPs) are a type of hostile architecture used by railroads to improve safety by reducing pedestrian accidents.

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Architecture terrible

Architecture terrible was an architectural style advocated by French architect Jacques-François Blondel in his nine-volume treatise Cours d'architecture (1771–77).

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Armrest

An armrest (or arm-rest) is a part of a chair, where a person can rest their arms on.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Bank of England

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Berlin S-Bahn

The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany.

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Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (German: 'Berlin Transport Company') is the main public transport company of Berlin, the capital city of Germany.

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Bird control spike

A bird control spike, also known as an anti-roosting spike, pigeon spike, or roost modification, is a device consisting of long, needle-like rods used for bird control.

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BMX

BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general street or off-road recreation.

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Bonhams

Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bus stop

A bus stop is a place where buses stop for passengers to get on and off the bus.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Camden bench

The Camden bench is a type of concrete street furniture. Hostile architecture and Camden bench are discrimination against the homeless.

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Camden London Borough Council

Camden London Borough Council, also known as Camden Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Camden in Greater London, England.

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Cathy Casey

Cathy Casey is a New Zealand politician who was an Auckland Councillor, for the Albert-Eden-Roskill Ward, prior to her 2022 retirement.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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City Tunnel (Malmö)

The City Tunnel (Citytunneln) is a 11-kilometre rail link in Malmö, Sweden, running between Malmö Central Station (Malmö C) and the Öresund Bridge, of which six kilometres under Malmö city centre is in a tunnel, to increase capacity on the Skåne County network by changing Malmö C from a terminus to a through station.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

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Closed-circuit television camera

A closed-circuit television camera is a type of surveillance camera that transmits video signals to a specific set of monitors or video recording devices, rather than broadcasting the video over public airwaves.

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Crime prevention through environmental design

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is an agenda for manipulating the built environment to create safer neighborhoods.

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Defensible space theory

The defensible space theory of architect and city planner Oscar Newman encompasses ideas about crime prevention and neighborhood safety.

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Defensive design

Defensive design is the practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project or undertaking.

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Equality Ombudsman

The Equality Ombudsman (discrimination ombudsman, DO; formerly label, JämO) is a government agency in Sweden tasked with supervising the laws relating to discrimination on the basis of someone's sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation or age.

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Functionalism (architecture)

In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function.

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Government Center (Miami)

Government Center is a district in the western portion of downtown Miami, Florida bound roughly by I-95 and West (NW/SW) 3rd Avenue to the west, South (SW/SE) 1st Street to the south, North (NE/NW) 5th Street to the north, and East (NE/SE) 1st Avenue to the east.

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Grind (skateboarding)

In skateboarding, grinds are tricks that involve the skateboarder sliding along a surface, making contact with the trucks of the skateboard.

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Homelessness

Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.

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Inline skating

Inline skating is a multi-disciplinary sport and can refer to a number of activities practiced using inline skates.

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Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein (born 1 August 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark) is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen.

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Jernhusen

Jernhusen AB owns and runs railway stations and other buildings attached to the railway network in Sweden.

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Kungsholmen

Kungsholmen is an island in Lake Mälaren in Sweden, part of central Stockholm, Sweden.

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Litter

Litter consists of waste products that have been discarded incorrectly, without consent, at an unsuitable location.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Loitering

Loitering is the act of standing or waiting around idly without purpose in some public places.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malmö

Malmö (Malmö,; Malmø) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania).

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Natural surveillance

Natural surveillance is a term used in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) models for crime prevention.

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New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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Nils Norman

Nils Norman (born 1966) is an artist living in London.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oregon Department of Transportation

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Privately owned public space

Privately owned public space (POPS), or alternatively, privately owned public open spaces (POPOS), are terms used to describe a type of public space that, although privately owned, is legally required to be open to the public under a city's zoning ordinance or other land-use law.

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Robert Moses

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century.

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Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung, published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Selfridges

Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores.

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Skateboarding

Skateboarding is an action sport that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry job, and a method of transportation.

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Skatestopper

Skatestoppers are skate-deterrent or anti-skate devices placed on urban terrain features such as benches and handrails to discourage skateboarders grinding on the surfaces where they have been installed;(1).

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Social engineering is a term which has been used to mean top-down efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale—most often undertaken by governments, but also carried out by media, academia or private groups—in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

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Southern State Parkway

The Southern State Parkway (also known as the Southern State or Southern Parkway) is a controlled-access parkway on Long Island, New York, in the United States.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Stockholm Central Station

Stockholm Central Station (Stockholms centralstation) is a railway station in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Strand Bookstore

The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square.

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Stuart Semple

Stuart Buchanan Semple (born 12 September 1980) is a British artist and activist who works with sculpture and painting.

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Tactical urbanism

Tactical urbanism, also commonly referred to as guerrilla urbanism, pop-up urbanism, city repair, D.I.Y. urbanism, planning-by-doing, urban acupuncture, and urban prototyping, is a low-cost, temporary change to the built environment, usually in cities, intended to improve local neighbourhoods and city gathering places.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mosquito

The Mosquito or Mosquito alarm is a machine used to deter loitering by emitting sound at high frequency. Hostile architecture and The Mosquito are discrimination against the homeless.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Stranger (newspaper)

The Stranger is an alternative biweekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It has a progressive orientation and as founded in 1991.

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The Yale Law Journal

The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Trespass to land

Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

Also known as Anti-homeless architecture, Anti-homeless spikes, Defensive Architecture, Disciplinary architecture, Exclusionary Design, Hostile design, Leaning Bench, Unpleasant design.

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See also

Discrimination against the homeless

Skateboarding

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