Park Bench Politics: The Rise of Hostile Architecture in Public Spaces
The war for urban space is rarely fought with soldiers or barricades. Instead, it is waged with stainless steel, concrete, and subtle geometry. In modern cities, a park bench is…
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Park Bench Politics: The Rise of Hostile Architecture in Public Spaces
January 29, 2026 • Infrastructure, All, Public, Real Estate, UK, USA, World
The war for urban space is rarely fought with soldiers or barricades. Instead, it is waged with stainless steel, concrete, and subtle geometry. In modern…
Campus security: Jurisdiction, transparency, and use of force
January 1, 2026 • Education, All
Campus security is at a pivotal juncture, with jurisdictional boundaries and transparency under intense scrutiny. A 2022 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics revealed…
Migrant Abuses on Cargo Truck Smuggling Routes and How They Did It Lethally
July 22, 2025 • All
Last year, a seven-month-long collaborative investigation about migrant abuses on cargo truck smuggling routes exposed systemic and lethal abuses involved with the growing use of…
Terrible Child Labor Abuses in the American South and How a Team from Reuters Investigated This
July 21, 2025 • All
In this story, Clark Merrefield interviews the Reuters team that exposed the use of migrant child labor by companies in the US South — an…
