2024-05-03T22:48:57-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/88089639/unpleasant-design-aka-cruel-firstworld-ingenuity Nam Henderson 2013-12-04T22:55:00-05:00 >2023-09-06T10:46:09-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/bs/bsyos82ksvhwxyaq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Indeed, one of the main criticisms of such design is that it aims to exclude already marginalised populations such as youths or the homeless...Preventing rough sleeping is a recurring theme.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Frank Swain discovers the "unpleasant designs", of modern cities. He talks with <a href="http://unpleasant.pravi.me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Selena Savic</a>, a PhD student at the Ecole Polytechnique Federerale de Lausanne in Switzerland, who co-authored a book on the subject this year.</p> <p> h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/bruces/status/408343496165040131" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Sterling</a></p>