://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-
gui...](https://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-
practitioners/fees) mentions £25 per hour. Assuming that the images are
already on BL computers somewhere then them providing a link or sending them
by email would likely be a couple of minutes; with admin certainly within the
hour.

FoI is about free-libre but they can't put financial blocks in the way as
that's undemocratic, it would make the FoI only accessible to the rich.

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userbinator
_Assuming that the images are already on BL computers somewhere then them
providing a link or sending them by email would likely be a couple of minutes;
with admin certainly within the hour._

I read his comment as meaning they haven't digitised them (yet), and BL wants
£400 to do it. Not that I agree with charging that much as I think they
should've done that already, but if he's asking for a bunch of large, old, and
fragile images, it could be delicate and time-consuming work.




A Field Guide to the 'Weapons' of Hostile Architecture in NYC - pseudolus
https://gothamist.com/2019/08/14/hostile_architecture_nyc.php
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ng12
Skateboarders destroy things. They wax concrete edges and repeatedly grind
them with metal trucks -- it doesn't take long at all for the edge to be worn
away. If you've skated for any period of time you can pretty easily pick out
where skateboarders have been. Additionally these edges usually exist in
pedestrian areas, I can't tell you how many times I've almost been knocked
down in front of Borough Hall.

I don't know if I'd term anti-skater deterrents as "hostile" but they are a
necessity.

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ceejayoz
Stuff like [https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jF72Sp-
wh/](https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jF72Sp-wh/) aren't for skateboarders,
though.

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thinkingemote
There was a great blog by a PhD student called Architectures of Control that
listed many of these.

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clockfan24
Walk through there on your way home from work at 9pm and tell me if you change
your mind.

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ster