Hostile architecture, or ホスタイル・アーキテクチャー, is the design of public spaces in a way that discourages people from sitting or lying on them. The expression made headlines recently when a set of metal spikes were installed outside a block of luxury flats in London to prevent homeless people from sleeping in an alcove near a doorway.
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