A religious organization sued the city of San Francisco to remove an open-air urinal from a popular park that it calls unsanitary and indecent. The Chinese Christian Union of SF filed a civil complaint last week demanding the city remove the concrete circular urinal from iconic Dolores Park. The group says the urinal, which is out in the open and screened only with plants for privacy, "emanates offensive odors," ''has no hand-washing facilities" and "it's offensive to manners and morals."
For more toilet-related designs, check out these links:
- This Nano Membrane Toilet could solve the world's sanitation crisis – and charge our phones
- Toilets for everyone: the politics of inclusive design
- "Toilet Talk" – gender inclusivity in public restrooms, featuring special guest Susan Surface, on Archinect Sessions #42
- Japan's simple logic for putting toilets in elevators
