This doesn’t look slave plantation-y enough.
I also can’t find the pointy white hat.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Right wing architecture Concrete sidewalk featuring concrete pyramidal spikes
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I assume they had a problem with cars parking there.
s23b@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Honest question: WTF is this?
hdsrob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anti homeless / hostile architecture. Prevents people sitting or sleeping there.
s23b@programming.dev 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
The amount of bench/public spaces without shades or benches you cannot sleep on are legion in Europe, too.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You should see Madrid. Dickface, the major, has an special place in his rotten heart for hostile-to-people anything.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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 😕
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
You can find hostile architecture in Europe as well. Especially in front of windows.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s to ensure homeless people can’t sit down somewhere.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Could they not have just put a lazy garden or something in instead…
That seems like a lot more work and expense
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Some insect is going to have an existential crisis finding those
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
So many tiny Pharaohs!
Iceman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Valley of the rat-kings.