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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Hostile Architecture

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Those armrests in the middle of benches aren’t just for your comfort, they’re intended to keep the homeless from laying on them. Cities are filled with these mean-spirited inconveniences. But who’s to say how a person should use a bench?

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0:00.0

My name is Curley and I'm Maya and welcome to the Super Secret Bestie Clubs

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0:26.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

Hey and welcome to the Short Stuff I'm Josh Chuck's here to Jerry's here somewhere.

0:38.2

She's gotten a little lost but we'll find her eventually so this is short stuff.

0:43.0

Well I know what Jerry's not doing she's not over there sleeping on a park bench.

0:47.0

No not these days not in any given city Chuck I'll tell you that much.

0:51.0

That's right you did a great job with this.

0:53.0

This is something I never heard of.

0:55.2

It's called hostile architecture.

0:58.4

Or what are there some of the other names there?

1:01.8

Defensive architecture or exclusionary design.

1:05.4

That's right.

1:06.4

And this is a topic that if our buddy Roman Mars and 99% invisible has not covered, I would be shocked and amazed.

1:15.8

You'd eat a 10-gallon hat.

1:18.2

I would, I'm sure they have covered this.

1:20.6

But this is the idea that someone will design something. This became pretty popular in the 1990s.

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