A Field Guide to the 'Weapons' of Hostile Architecture in NYC

[pseudolus]

https://gothamist.com/2019/08/14/hostile_architecture_nyc.php

[ng12]

Skateboarders destroy things. They wax concrete edges and repeatedly grind them with metal trucks -- it doesn't take long at all for the edge to be worn away. If you've skated for any period of time you can pretty easily pick out where skateboarders have been. Additionally these edges usually exist in pedestrian areas, I can't tell you how many times I've almost been knocked down in front of Borough Hall.

I don't know if I'd term anti-skater deterrents as "hostile" but they are a necessity.

[ceejayoz → ng12]

Stuff like https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jF72Sp-wh/ aren't for skateboarders, though.

[thinkingemote]

There was a great blog by a PhD student called Architectures of Control that listed many of these.

[clockfan24]

Walk through there on your way home from work at 9pm and tell me if you change your mind.

[sterkekoffie → clockfan24]

Do you think all the people taking these photographs just go home to the suburbs at night? This is a difference in worldview, not life experience.