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Skatestoppers are skate-deterrent or anti-skate devices placed on urban terrain features, such as benches and handrails, to discourage skateboarders from grinding on the surfaces where they have been installed. [1] They are a form of hostile architecture. [1]
Hostile architecture [a] is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide behavior. It often targets people who use or rely on public space more than others, such as youth, poor people, and homeless people , by restricting the physical behaviours they can engage in. [ 1 ]
The Camden bench received criticism as being a prime example of a wider trend of urban design that is anti-homeless, known as hostile architecture. [6] Critics claim it is emblematic of a society where freedom in public space has been curtailed and deviance from accepted forms of behaviour has been made impossible. [7]
Urine deflector in a corner of the Priory Gatehouse in Great Malvern. A urine deflector is a device for deflecting the stream of urine during urination.These may be part of a chamber pot, latrine or toilet intended for the purpose, or they may be deterrents, installed in the sides or corners of buildings to discourage their casual use as urinals by passers-by.
Comparison of a ha-ha (top) and a regular wall (bottom). Both walls prevent access, but one does not block the view looking outward. A ha-ha (French: hâ-hâ or saut de loup), also known as a sunk fence, blind fence, ditch and fence, deer wall, or foss, is a recessed landscape design element that creates a vertical barrier (particularly on one side) while preserving an uninterrupted view of ...
Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.
"There is nothing worse," she continues. "Every picture you see of me looking effervescent and happy was all a lie. If you zoom in, you can see the pain in my eyeballs."
Anti-trespass panels used at Reigate station, used to access platforms from nearby grade crossing, photographed in 2012 In 2015, at Reigate station in Surrey , England, locals were observed using wooden anti-trespass panels to walk a very short distance onto station platforms adjacent to a grade crossing rather than walk several hundred feet ...