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A note?

No. It's like trolls on twitter or FB.

Always REPORT it to the authorities - loud noise is illegal in Seattle, report it to the Seattle Police Department, and email them a recording too, with a cc for the Seattle City Council.

Then BLOCK it.

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What we really need is an official academic term for this, the polar opposite of universal design. UD is helping a small group in a way that helps everyone (wheelchair ramps helping people pushing a dolly, non-gendered bathrooms helping the cis het dad changing a baby diaper), and yet the defining characteristic of modern cities is the opposite. Anti-seats at the bus stop to punish the homeless, and thus nobody gets to sit down. No public toilets to punish the homeless, and therefore everyone is punished. What is this urban design philosophy called, in which a city voluntarily molds itself into a giant metropolitan torture device?

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@4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

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I remember that time the McDonald's at 3rd and Pine started playing country music out on the sidewalk to deter loitering, and the Stranger treated it like some sort of civil-rights violation.

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Ooooooooh, these twolls got twiggered!

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@5 I mean you're right, nobody's obliged to shop at a store that for whatever reason is actively trying to discourage anyone from entering it.

That's the magic of the market, innit?

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I should have studied hostile architecture; seems like a growth industry. Soon to follow will be hostile engineering and hostile programming. Why should hostile journalism have all the fun?

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@7 well, my definition of hell would be to sit through the CMA for eternity

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I use punji sticks. Work like a charm.

By the way it's not "hostile architecture", it's defensive architecture against scum bags and people who haven't been house trained.

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I shop at that IGA regularly, and catch the bus at the adjacent stop. I truly feel sorry for the business owners along that stretch of Third, it is a shitshow. It's an open-air market for tubesocks and batteries stolen from Target, and more often than not, there are several groups huddled behind umbrellas or whatever in doorways shooting up. It is impossible to walk along that stretch of sidewalk without coming across at least one of the orange caps from a syringe.

I'm not some sort of alarmist "Safe Seattle" person. I am simply describing what that place looks like on most days. Amplified classical music sounds like a refreshing change.


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