Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
lorax b. horne

Anti-homeless architecture is anti-everyone architecture. When you are out in public space, you also do not have a home. You just make do with what seating and rest areas are available to everyone else as well.

4 comments
Nagaram

@bbhorne imagine if the solution to homeless people using public seating was just more public seating.

I used to be fine with just sitting on walls but now theyโ€™re all jagged rock walls meant to divide the bike and walk lane. No seating.

Sozan

@bbhorne Here in #Amman they just put more banks at the stops of the new speed bus line - real banks, and yes, you could lay down on them. Anti-homeless architecture is no thing here, God bless them, maybe because not many people are homeless? At least I don't see many ...

Gustav Lindqvist ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช

@bbhorne but if you are sitting down, how can you be a productive consumer?

Time spent sitting is time spent not-consuming

tuban_muzuru

@bbhorne

Two things we've learned over time:

1. Don't concentrate poverty. We knew this all along but the racists in Congress said we could only build things like Cabrini-Green and Pruitt-Igoe.

2. If you're going to build hangars, start with runways. If people end up in public housing, make sure they can get to education and jobs and food.

There's lots more, but....

Go Up