Camden bench

English thumb Noun A type of street furniture designed to restrict certain uses and behaviours and be usable only as a bench. en 2020 Noreena Hertz The Lonely Century 9781529329285 https://books.google.com/books?id=jVacDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT76&dq=&hl=es&pg=PT82#v=onepage&q&f=false The Camden Bench is not an anomaly: more and more, our cities are being designed to keep those deemed as ‘undesirables’ out. By its very nature this is ‘hostile architecture’—urban design with a focus on exclusion, design that inhibits community and tells us who is welcome and who is not. See also en hostile architecture Further reading en Architecture en terms derived from toponyms