An Anti-homeless Public Space
Date
2019-11-03
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Centre for Urban Research on Austerity
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Abstract
In this post, Dr Simon Stevens exposes the strategies used by local authorities and managers of pseudo-public spaces in English cities, to disperse, deter and dehumanise homeless residents. Seen through the eyes of a detective searching for a homeless witness of an alleged crime, the narrator exposes how our cities are responding to the ongoing crisis of homelessness following a decade of austerity.
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A website post for the CURA blog
Keywords
anti-social behaviour, homelessness, public space, hostile architecture
Citation
Stevens, S. (2019) An Anti-homeless Public Space.