# @green.anarchist on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-IFlYnNIYC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36616477-greenanarchist-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-08-01T11:58:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 🌲🏴 (@green.anarchist) — https://gondola.cc/green.anarchist

## Caption

Metal spikes under bridges; slanted tops to walls; armrests dividing benches, or removal of benches altogether - hostile architecture is nothing new, but continues to be implemented in cities around the world to encourage a cruel "out of sight, out of mind" mentality in regards to some of society's most vulnerable populations.

"This pressure of an increasingly hostile built environment [...] and a hardening attitude to poverty can be disastrous for people sleeping rough, both physically and psychologically. Fundamental misunderstanding of destitution is designed to exonerate the rest from responsibility and insulate them from perceiving risk. All of us are encouraged to spend future earnings through credit. For the spell to be effective, it is essential to be in a sort of denial about the possibility that such future earnings could dry up. Most of us are a couple of pay packets from being insolvent. We despise homeless people for bringing us face to face with that fact.

Poverty exists as a parallel, but separate, reality. City planners work very hard to keep it outside our field of vision. It is too miserable, too dispiriting, too painful to look at someone defecating in a park or sleeping in a doorway and think of him as “someone’s son”. It is easier to see him and ask only the unfathomably self-centred question: “How does his homelessness affect me?” So we cooperate with urban design and work very hard at not seeing, because we do not want to see. We tacitly agree to this apartheid."

- Alex Andreou

Imagine how else these resources could be used. Imagine if we were to prioritise rehabilitation and housing over division and inequity. Consider who benefits from maintaining class divisions. An attack on living conditions for some is an attack on living conditions for all.

#buildcommunity #freedomofmovement #unhousedneighbours #homelessness #homelesscommunity #poverty #lowincome #anticapitalism #abolition #abolitionist #homelesslivesmatter #righttoroam #nowarbutclasswar #anticapitalist #equalityforall #anarchism #anarchist #hostilearchitecture #antihomelessarchitecture #cityplanning #classdivide

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antihomelessarchitecture, poverty, equalityforall, anarchist, anarchism, homelessness, abolition, homelesslivesmatter, buildcommunity, anticapitalist, righttoroam, hostilearchitecture, homelesscommunity, nowarbutclasswar, anticapitalism, unhousedneighbours, cityplanning, lowincome, abolitionist, freedomofmovement, classdivide

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