or anti homeless space
That’s what I thought. IMHO, hostile architecture is the physical-world equivalent of a lot of the policies that led us to flee Reddit, Twitter, etc.
My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It’d still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.
Is there a hostile architecture community here?
In this case Finland actually takes care of their people and homelessness isn’t a problem there. They’re just really polite introverts who I might guess prefer sitting alone as opposed to on a bench close to others.
Source - my introverted niece met a Fin, fell in love, moved to Finland and is in absolute heaven. Her husband has visited the States a few times and is always overwhelmed with the casual social interactions with strangers in public.
Finn here, we still have a ton of those stupid benches with a railing in the middle.
Holy shit, can someone please get me to Finland?
Perhaps they are afraid of sitting next to someone from Sweden who eats Surströming.
Gotta back off further than that, yo.
Ain’t Finland a paradise?
Not getting sunlight for months in a row tends to make people depressed.
*to make people look depressed
“one person benches” you mean chairs?
When the city government wants to install anti-homeless benches, but doesn’t want the backlash from installing anti-homeless benches.
Through an innovative public policy strategy that has virtually eliminated homelessness within its borders
It is a lot better than other places but not literally 0.
Per this report, as of 2021 they had 4396 homeless people. A rate of 0.79 per thousand people in Finland.
Which to be clear is stellar… but doesn’t have much to do with the topic of anti homeless architecture.
There will always be homeless people, the ones we have are either crashing or simply do not want to live inside (due to a multitude of reasons involving decades of living in the streets with substance abuse and mental issues). The only folk you’ll find here sleeping on benches are aforementioned and students who have had one too many. Plenty of benches for both and even if all benches are turned into chairs we’ve got intoxication centres and housing available for those who prefer it.
oH mY gOd ThAt’S dIsGuStInG sOcIaLlIsTiC cOmMuNiSm!!1!
Just for anyone who’s unaware; it’s social democracy, not communism. It is possible to have a wide public safety net without resorting to communism, which is inherently genocidal.
We have single person benches in my city not because people don’t want to sit next to each other, but so homeless people can’t sleep on them.
Probably a shit-ton if the seats on the plane are spaced out the same way
They almost nailed it:
I don’t see what’s notable about your picture
Good bench
