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For me, it was wheelchair ramps.
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I sometimes go around with a pram. Prams you can lift up and down stairs if needed, but you’d rather avoid it. It’s a quick and painless way to become more mindful of the accessibility of the environment around you.
I am also staunchly against “anti-homeless” architecture. People might need to lay down! Let them. And set up programs against homelessness, not against homeless people.
I was recently noticing how the newest wave of hostile architecture has changed as I walked around my city.
In the past couple of decades, anti-homeless architecture became so profoundly hostile that it was almost unusable even for its intended purpose.
Benches so sloped you couldn't sit on them at all. Spikes sticking out of everything. It became obvious to anyone that the whole purpose of the furniture was to be unusable, that it existed only through spite.
Everyone hated it.
And so the latest generation of hostile architecture has now "evolved". It's hostile but only subtly so, in a way where most people might not notice.
Things like trendy wooden slatting instead of anti-skate spikes. Benches that look and feel normal to sit on, but are intentionally just a little too short to lay down on.
We could fix homelessness, but instead an incredible amount of effort has been poured into refining and "perfecting" hostile architecture so it achieves the purpose of deterring homeless people, but in a subtle way that conceals its true purpose.
Out of sight, out of mind.
All the money spent on hostile anti-homeless shit could have solved homelessness 3 times over.
But that'll never happen in america, at least, because when it comes to punishing people.. there is no end of the money, but when it comes to helping people.. oh my god the pearl clutching and hand clasping that follows about money.