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- Title
Defending Suburbia: Exploring the Use of Defensive Urban Design Outside of the City Centre.
- Authors
Chellew, Cara
- Abstract
Defensive urban design, also known as hostile, unpleasant, or exclusionary architecture is an intentional design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to guide or restrict behaviour in urban space as a form of crime prevention, protection of property, or order maintenance. It often targets people who use or rely on public space more than others, like people who are homeless and youth, by restricting the behaviours they engage in. From benches specially designed to prevent lying down to the addition of elements that are meant to deter skateboarding, forms of defensive design vary according to the behaviour it is intended to restrict. While much of the current research on the subject privileges the urban centre as the site of research, this paper expands the focus from the centre to the periphery. Taking two public spaces in Toronto's inner suburb of North York as a starting point, this paper examines how defensive urban design is used regulate, control, and maintain public space outside of the city centre.
- Subjects
HOSTILE architecture; URBAN planning; CENTRAL business districts; BUILT environment; PUBLIC spaces; CRIME prevention
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
1188-3774
- Publication type
Article