(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Urban spaces are often designed to be subtly hostile to certain uses. Think about, for example, the seat partitions on bus terminal benches that make it harder for the homeless to sleep there or the ...