Author: Kaitlin Jock
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The United States has a hostile architecture problem. Is public space becoming private?
Anti-homeless policy has been a staple in cities all over the world for decades, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public spaces. Hostile architecture, sometimes called “defensive architecture”, a trend in urban design which discourages the use of spaces in any way other…