Law and hostile design in the city: Imposing decorum and visibility regimes in the urban environment
Keywords:
Hostile design, law and urban objects, decorum, visibility regimes, right to the city, diseño hostil, derecho y objetos urbanos, decoro, regímenes de visibilidad, derecho a la ciudadAbstract
The aim of the paper is to examine new trends in the regulation of access to public space, looking at the legal implications of the adoption of hostile architecture and objects as a widespread tendency in urban design. The paper approaches the rising interest in hostile architecture and design with the aim to show the normative aspects of such a trend and how law contributes to shaping an urban space more prone to the insertion of hostile urban objects in it. I begin with a brief discussion of attempts to define and understanding hostile architecture through some examples and showing how the topic matters for legal and socio-legal studies. Then, drawing on examples from Italian legislation, I analyze how the link between “decorum” and hostile architecture shapes public spaces and how this helps to create a specific regime of visibility and expulsion for certain categories of people. Finally, I make some concluding remarks on how hostile design represents a challenge for re-thinking cities in more inclusive terms.
El objetivo del artículo es examinar las nuevas tendencias en la regulación del acceso al espacio público, analizando las implicaciones jurídicas de la adopción de la arquitectura y los objetos hostiles como tendencia generalizada del diseño urbano. El documento aborda el interés creciente por la arquitectura y el diseño hostiles, con el objetivo de mostrar los aspectos normativos de dicha tendencia y cómo el derecho contribuye a configurar un espacio urbano más propenso a la inserción de objetos urbanos hostiles. Comienzo con un breve análisis de los intentos de definir y comprender la arquitectura hostil a través de algunos ejemplos y mostrando la importancia del tema para los estudios jurídicos y socio-jurídicos. A continuación, basándome en ejemplos de la legislación italiana, analizo cómo el vínculo entre el “decoro” y la arquitectura hostil da forma a los espacios públicos y cómo esto contribuye a crear un régimen específico de visibilidad y expulsión para determinadas categorías de personas. Por último, hago algunas observaciones sobre cómo el diseño hostil representa un reto para repensar las ciudades en términos más inclusivos.
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