Cal Poly Pomona MURP student Abby Urquiza found some conspicuous Hostile Architecture in Tokyo. Last semester, we examined Hostile Architecture in the Planning & Control module in our course, URP 5120: Planning Ideas & Action. From our readings:
The city is engaged in a merciless struggle to make public facilities and spaces as ‘unlivable’ as possible for the homeless and the poor.
~Mike Davis, Fortress LA chapter, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
“Planning as oppression” does exist in a variety of settings and . . . it affects a range of social relations in space.
~Oren Yiftachel, Planning and Social Control: Exploring the Dark Side (1998)
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