Hostile Architecture in Los Angeles

<p>Last year, students from an Australian university reached out for my thoughts on Hostile Architecture. It was for a journalism course studying Los Angeles&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/understanding-homelessness-city-los-angeles" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">houseless crisis</a>. The group wanted to ensure their research acknowledged the hostile and defensive design&nbsp;<a href="https://failedarchitecture.com/barricades-boulders-and-how-las-public-space-became-a-battleground-for-the-commons/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">targeting unhoused Angelenos</a>.</p> <p>Given our timezone differences and mutual capacity limits, we agreed to do the interview asynchronously over email. They sent a questionnaire. I reflected on each question, prepared my responses, and hit &ldquo;send&rdquo; days later. When the term ended, the students shared their final project, a thoroughly researched website investigating the causes and consequences of being unhoused in LA.</p> <p><a href="https://c1typlann3r.medium.com/interview-hostile-architecture-in-los-angeles-jonathan-pacheco-bell-1204b901560e"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>