Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the concept of hostile architecture and what it says about the priorities of the community and society as a whole. For those uninformed, hostile architecture is a type of urban design that uses decorative or environmental elements to restrict behavior. In this example from Canada, steel maple leaf decor is used as a way to prevent skateboard grinding. Of course, this is a relatively tame thing to attempt to dissuade, although it is still kind of a jerk move. However, there are other aspects that are less passive. These "decorative" fences were actually put up as an attempt to stop street vendors, with seemingly no regard for how obtrusive something like this would be for everyone else, not including how it's almost illegal considering you need to have a certain amount of space open on a sidewalk for the wheelchair-bound to pass through safely. I'm sure everyone saw this coming, but a very common target of hostile archite...