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Flashcards about Hostile Architecture and Food Deserts
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Hostile Architecture
To prevent skateboarding, inline skating, littering, public urination and trespassing in urban areas and big cities.
Hostile Architecture
Design elements used to deter the use of public spaces.
Hostile architecture
Defensive design elements have historically been used to isolate private space from public access, but hostile architecture is a relatively new phenomenon in which design elements are used to deter the use of public spaces, which are supposed to be inclusive and accessible.
Modern forms of hostile architecture
A design philosophy called crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), notably articulated in American architect and city planner Oscar Newman's 1972 book Defensible Space.
Who does hostile architecture affect?
Homeless people, disabled people who have mobility issues, elderly individuals, pregnant people, parents with young children and people who do activities such as skateboarding or inline skating.
Sleep deprivation
A health consequence of hostile architecture.
Food Deserts
Regions where people have limited access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food.
Food Desert
The term used to describe neighborhoods with little or difficult access to nutritious foods, originating in the 1990s
Who do food deserts affect?
Low-income communities and people with no reliable public transportation.
Supermarket Redlining
Areas with predominantly Black or Hispanic populations have been historically neglected by supermarket chains.
Poor Nutrition
Not only are grocery stores harder to find in food deserts, but the fresh, nutritious products they sell are more expensive than processed foods.
Chronic Diseases
Consistently eating foods that are high in salt, sugar, carbohydrates, and trans fats can increase your chances of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, various types of cancer linked to obesity.
Educational Challenges in Food-Insecure Households
May struggle with concentration, energy, and academic performance.
Root issues of Hostile architecture and Food deserts
Decisions made by city planners, developers, and policymakers-often with little to no input from the people most affected shape both hostile architecture and food deserts.
Communities affected by Hostile architecture and Food deserts
Typically low-income and immigrant neighborhoods-are also those where hostile architecture is most aggressively implemented.
Hostile architecture
Pushes unhoused people out of public areas-literally removing them from visibility.