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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Squatting, Freetown Christiania, Ungdomshuset, Battle of Ryesgade, Collective: Unconscious, Jack Tafari, ABC No Rio, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Can Masdeu, C-Squat, Kennedy Road, Durban, Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers, St Agnes Place, Frestonia, RampART, Dos Blockos, Macassar Village Land Occupation, Joe Slovo, Cape Town, 491 Gallery, Fort Pannerden, Frances Street Squats, Prestes Maia, Punk house, Kew Bridge Ecovillage, Poortgebouw, Bussana Vecchia, Liguria, QQ Section, Advisory Service for Squatters, Centro 73, Metelkova, North Star Hotel, ASCII, Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus, Hounslow community land project, Eskalera Karakola, RHINO, OT301, De Blauwe Aanslag, Het Slaakhuis, Villa Amalia, Anatopia. Excerpt: Squatting consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use. Author Robert Neuwirth suggests that there are one billion squatters globally, that is, about one in every six people on the planet. Yet, according to Kesia Reeve, "squatting is largely absent from policy and academic debate and is rarely conceptualized, as a problem, as a symptom, or as a social or housing movement." Squatter's symbol found in Malaga, Spain The Chien Rouge in Lausanne, a squat held in the old hospitalIn many of the world's poorer countries, there are extensive slums or shanty towns, typically built on the edges of major cities and consisting almost entirely of self-constructed housing built without the landowner's permission. While these settlements may, in time, grow to become both legalised and indistinguishable from normal residential neighbourhoods, they start off as squats with minimal basic infrastructure. Thus, there is no sewage system, drinking water must be bought from vendors or carried from a nearby tap, and if there is electri...
