When you’re inclusive but still hate the poor.
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The space reached out to me with some more information about the bench.
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Here are a few more (less ironic) examples of the same sort of exclusionary design from around my neighbourhood. Most of these are deliberate choices by the city.
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Ultimately we need to house the homeless. In the meantime, help!
Taking the bench away won’t make things better. The space is also in need of more benches. The people who run it take donations at springboardperformance.com/containr/.
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So they're supposed to make benches without arms or hand-grips for elderly people or others with balance/mobility issues? Although I don't think the bench in 3rd photo helps anything (the "arms" are too low if you need them for stability), but arms/rails aren't always "hostile".
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Another exclusionary feature is making the edges of raised planters, etc, at a steep angle (rather than flat) to discourage people from sitting on them.
The entrance to GGP at Haight/Stanyan is a great example.
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Haight as in haight ashbury? What the?? So they love gays and hate homeless there I guess!