User:Mujinga/squatting

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[edit] Notable and well known squats

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

  • Chang Sang-Min Haus, Kingston
  • False Creek, Vancouver
  • Woodwards Squat
  • Frances St. Squats
  • Squatzilla(st.catharines)

Czech Republic

  • Ladronka (evicted)
  • Milada
  • Stare Stresovice (evicted)

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Italy

Lithuania

Mozambique

The Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Slovenia

Spain

A squat in Viladecans (Spain)
A squat in Viladecans (Spain)

Sweden

  • Ladonia
  • Mullvaden (evicted 1978)
  • Taråberg (evicted 1980)
  • Borgen (evicted)

Switzerland

The Chien Rouge in Lausanne, a squat held in the old hospital.
The Chien Rouge in Lausanne, a squat held in the old hospital.

United Kingdom

  • Principality of Sealand (on HM Fort Roughs, a wartime sea-fort)
  • The ARC, London (now evicted) (art house 1990)
  • A-Spire, Leeds
  • ASBO Community Centre [14], Nottingham (Squatted council housing turned into community centre)
  • RampART Social Centre, London
  • The Circle Community Centre [15] (a community center opened in November 2004 in London, now evicted)
  • The Nursery Occupied Social Centre [16], Birmingham (a squatted council day nursery transformed into a social centre. The collective left the building on their own terms in 2005, on the condition that the council return the building to social use)
  • The Cottage Occupied Social Centre [17], Birmingham (a squatted community youth centre shut by the city council. The collective along with local people are seeking to compel the council to re-instate the community/youth centre)
  • Medina House, Hove, Sussex
  • St Agnes Place, London (evicted 2005)

United States

[edit] thoughts for how to make the page better

useful pages:

ny

squat the world

philadelphia - http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CitiesThesisAbstracts2001.htm

uk

ward

Sealand

france

  • Image:Squat à Paris (59, rue de Rivoli, 1er ardt).jpg


nl

adilkno kastanificos trespass at will

Fort Pannerden

south america

india

Image:Slum_in_Mumbai.jpg Jockin Arputham shadow citites

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Squatters_at_Rubish_Tip_in_Port_Moresby.jpg

turkey

shadow cities

berlin

http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CitiesThesisAbstracts2001.htm

Autonomen Katsiaficas G. (1999) The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life Humanity Books ISBN 1573924415</ref>