{"id":31251,"date":"2017-12-26T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=31251"},"modified":"2017-12-11T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T22:31:27","slug":"video-vancouver-cities-full-uncomfortable-benches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2017\/12\/26\/video-vancouver-cities-full-uncomfortable-benches\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Vancouver: Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18200\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/02\/video-van_feature-VAN.gif\" alt=\"Video Vancouver\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WeyLEe1T0yo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/videos\/2017\/12\/1\/16724914\/hostile-architecture-defensive-design-uncomfortable-benches?mc_cid=b0050c5d76&amp;mc_eid=df385c36db\"><strong>Vox:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>That bench won&#8217;t be yours forever.<\/h3>\n<p>When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the New York City MTA. They\u2019ve installed &#8216;leaning bars\u2019 to supplement traditional benches &amp; save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Vox: That bench won&#8217;t be yours forever. When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs. In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2017\/12\/26\/video-vancouver-cities-full-uncomfortable-benches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Video Vancouver: Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"featured_media":31252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11293,36,11235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-video","category-streetscape","category-urban-design","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video Vancouver: Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2017\/12\/26\/video-vancouver-cities-full-uncomfortable-benches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video Vancouver: Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Via Vox: That bench won&#8217;t be yours forever. 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