Honest question: WTF is this?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Right wing architecture Concrete sidewalk featuring concrete pyramidal spikes
s23b@programming.dev 13 hours ago
hdsrob@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Anti homeless / hostile architecture. Prevents people sitting or sleeping there.
s23b@programming.dev 3 hours ago
This blows my naive European mind. To make an area deliberately unusable for anything by anyone is wild. At least those hostile benches can be sat on.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 58 minutes ago
The amount of bench/public spaces without shades or benches you cannot sleep on are legion in Europe, too.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
I was surprised to find the new trainstation in a Finnish town has benches that prevent lying down on them. Apparently someone’s been taking notes here 😕
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s to ensure homeless people can’t sit down somewhere.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 15 hours ago
This doesn’t look slave plantation-y enough.
I also can’t find the pointy white hat.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 3 hours ago
I assume they had a problem with cars parking there.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Some insect is going to have an existential crisis finding those
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 14 hours ago
Could they not have just put a lazy garden or something in instead…
That seems like a lot more work and expense
snooggums@piefed.world 18 hours ago
So many tiny Pharaohs!