(NEXSTAR) – Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Examples of hostile architecture, also known as hostile design or defensible architecture, are everywhere in cities and public spaces. You’ve likely ...

It looks like something designed to stop inmates from escaping a prison complex. But this shocking photograph of metal spikes covering the branches of a tree was actually taken in a wealthy ...

Public space isn’t quite so public anymore, and hostile architecture is to blame. Hostile architecture is an urban design strategy invoked during city planning stages to police who is allowed to be ...

(CNN) — Spiked or sloped benches. Bolts installed on shop doorsteps and windowsills. Water features that operate at surprising intervals on flat surfaces. All of the above are examples of hostile ...

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