---
title: "Sleeping in Public (94)"
created: 2026-07-01
updated: 2026-07-01
type: concept
status: compiled
namespace: pattern-language
pattern_number: 94
pattern_name: "Sleeping in Public"
source_repository: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md
source_url: https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md/blob/master/Patterns/Sleeping%20in%20Public%20%2894%29.md
license_note: Non-commercial reuse with attribution; see namespace README and source LICENSE.md.
related_patterns:
  - "Interchange (34)"
  - "Small Public Squares (61)"
  - "Public Outdoor Room (69)"
  - "Street Cafe (88)"
  - "Pedestrian Street (100)"
  - "Building Thoroughfare (101)"
  - "A Place to Wait (150)"
  - "Building Edge (160)"
  - "Bed Alcove (188)"
  - "Seat Spots (241)"
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# Sleeping in Public (94)

> Source pattern from the abridged `apl-md` corpus. Use as a design reference and constraint seed; do not treat as commercial-clean training data.

### Problem
>It is a mark of success in a park, public lobby, or a porch, when people can come there and fall asleep.

### Solution
>Keep the environment filled with ample benches, comfortable places, corners to sit on the ground, or lie in comfort in the sand. Make these places relatively sheltered, protected from circulation, perhaps up a step, with seats and grass to slump down upon, read the paper and doze off.

### Related Patterns
... this pattern helps to make places like the [[Interchange (34)]], [[Small Public Squares (61)]], [[Public Outdoor Room (69)]], [[Street Cafe (88)]], [[Pedestrian Street (100)]], [[Building Thoroughfare (101)]], [[A Place to Wait (150)]] completely public.

Above all, put the places for sleeping along [[Building Edge (160)]] ; make seats there, and perhaps even a bed alcove or two in public might be a nice touch - [[Bed Alcove (188)]], [[Seat Spots (241)]]; but above all, it will hinge on the attitudes which people have - do anything you can to create trust, so that people feel no fear in going to sleep in public and so that other people feel no fear of people sleeping in the street.

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> [!cite]- Alexander, Christopher. _A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction_. Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 457.
> #APL/confidence/low
>
> #APL/Town-Patterns/Social-Institutions---Local-Gathering