Read our latest issue or browse back issues. In metro areas today, park benches are becoming an endangered species. Hostile architecture is the name urban engineers give to public space designs that ...

If you were to Google "hostile architecture," you would see a picture of a bench that looks like that,' said Rachwal, Labrador Friendship Centre's youth programs manager, referring to an urban ...

“Hostile benches” installed in a public park in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward in March caused a stir on social media, but such equipment is nothing. These benches have various ways to discourage ...