{"id":8587,"date":"2018-06-19T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:26:29","slug":"spikes-stop-people-sleeping-in-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2018\/06\/spikes-stop-people-sleeping-in-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Spikes Stop People Sleeping in the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>B1 &#8211; Intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, many buildings have installed \u201canti-homeless\u201d spikes like these to stop people sleeping in the streets. The spikes are appearing in major cities such as London and Manchester, outside shops and under bridges where homeless people usually sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The shops and businesses believe that when homeless people sleep near their buildings, this gives a bad impression to customers and it might stop people entering the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>These spikes were installed outside Selfridges, a luxury department store in Manchester, on the 1st December last year.<\/p>\n<p>The store says it has installed these spikes because customers have complained that people who sat here smoked and left litter. This made the front of the shop look ugly.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon of \u201cdefensive architecture\u201d such as this is very controversial. Over 3,000 people have signed a petition to remove the spikes from Selfridges saying that these spikes are \u201cinhumane\u201d and that they will not help solve the problem of homelessness in the UK. It will only move the problem to a different place.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian newspaper says that this type of architecture is a type of apartheid: it stops homeless people living in public places. It makes them invisible to the rest of society.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is not the only country to install \u201canti-homeless\u201d architecture. Spikes are also used in China. In New York City a famous bookstore has used water sprinklers to get rid of homeless people from the front of the shop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is your opinion about &#8220;defensive architecture&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Why is &#8220;defensive architecture&#8221; a controversial issue?<\/li>\n<li>What do you think can be done about homelessness in general?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B1 &#8211; Intermediate Over the last year, many buildings have installed \u201canti-homeless\u201d spikes like these to stop people sleeping in the streets. 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