2024-12-22T04:25:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150136471/lipstick-on-anti-terror-infrastructure Alexander Walter 2019-05-14T13:28:00-04:00 >2019-05-14T13:28:52-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fd/fd6371efd2df59093345694de1b59e2e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Urban designers are increasingly being tasked with an emergent &lsquo;design challenge&rsquo; for public spaces: how best to deliver anti-terror infrastructure while generating a pleasant urban environment. By allowing themselves to be drawn into this challenge, and by dutifully working to respond with creative and constructive solutions, they are inadvertently helping to normalize a creeping &lsquo;fortification&rsquo; of our cities that in turn contributes to a wider process of &lsquo;bordering&rsquo; across the world.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Urbanist Alice Sweitzer and <em>Failed Architecture</em> editor Charlie Clemoes share their thoughts on a booming new design task, "making an increasingly aggressive urban situation more palatable to an ever more anxious citizenry."<br></p>