hostile architecture
A type of architecture and design strategy for buildings, roads, park benches, etc,…A type of architecture and design strategy for buildings, roads, park benches, etc, which aims to discourage homeless people, skateboarders, or others from sitting, sleeping, skateboarding or otherwise using a space, for example by covering it with spikes.
» Those spikes under the bridge are overtly hostile architecture.
Diese Stacheln unter der Brücke sind offen feindselige Architektur. — Yorwba
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Examples
1 sentencesThose spikes under the bridge are overtly hostile architecture.
deDiese Stacheln unter der Brücke sind offen feindselige Architektur. — Yorwba
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A type of architecture and design strategy for buildings, roads, park benches, etc, which aims to discourage homeless people, skateboarders, or others from sitting, sleeping, skateboarding or otherwise using a space, for example by covering it with spikes.
feindliche Architektur, Anti-Obdachlosen-Architektur
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.