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作者

来源

HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY,Vol.34,Issue1,P.79-105

语言

英文

关键字

Informal space; Housing; Colin Ward; Plotlanders; Anarchism; NEOLIBERALISM; GEOGRAPHIES; DIRECTIONS; POLICIES; CITIES; STATE

作者单位

[Bower, Richard] Univ Cent Lancashire, Grenfell Baines Sch Architecture, Preston PR1 2HE, Lancs, England. Bower, R (reprint author), Univ Cent Lancashire, Grenfell Baines Sch Architecture, Preston PR1 2HE, Lancs, England. E-Mail: rbower2@uclan.ac.uk

摘要

Colin Ward's discourses on the Arcadian landscape of plotlander housing are unique documentations of the anarchistic birth, life, and death of the last informal housing communities in the UK. Today, the forgotten history of plotlander housing documented by Ward can be re-read in the context of both the apparently never-ending housing crisis in the UK and the increasing awareness of the potential value of learning from comparable informal housing from the Global South. This paper's observations of a previously unknown and forgotten plotlander site offer a chance to begin a new conversation regarding the positive potential of informal and alternative housing models in the UK and wider Westernized world.