Spontaneous communities
What should we call neighborhoods of self-built homes?
“Well, it was a hole in the ground cuvvered wi’ a sheet o’ tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.”
– Rich Yorkshireman, reminiscing over a glass of Chateau La Chassela.
Use and invention always precede standardization and regulation, and so before there was zoning, there were homes. But [...]
