Archinect - News2024-11-21T18:10:41-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150136471/lipstick-on-anti-terror-infrastructure
Lipstick on anti-terror infrastructure Alexander Walter2019-05-14T13:28:00-04:00>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 ‘design challenge’ 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 ‘fortification’ of our cities that in turn contributes to a wider process of ‘bordering’ 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>