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Casa Pronta : A Housing Activism Zine Turton, Alexander

Abstract

The reappropriation of non-precious, vacant buildings as they await permitting provides unique opportunity for affordable housing. In light of Vancouver’s housing crisis, which leaves us with few houses and fewer homes, this project seeks to create places of meaning for the community. It addresses the imposing powers of government regulation, capitalist economies and detached designers to propose an alternative living space defined entirely by occupants. How might a collective of young activists begin to move the dial? Through the pages of a zine, we see how embracing bottom-up methodologies of collective, temporary occupation of vacant property can present innovative opportunities for unique in habitation.

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Title
Casa Pronta : A Housing Activism Zine
Creator
Turton, Alexander
Date Issued
2022-05
Description
The reappropriation of non-precious, vacant buildings as they await permitting provides unique opportunity for affordable housing. In light of Vancouver’s housing crisis, which leaves us with few houses and fewer homes, this project seeks to create places of meaning for the community. It addresses the imposing powers of government regulation, capitalist economies and detached designers to propose an alternative living space defined entirely by occupants. How might a collective of young activists begin to move the dial? Through the pages of a zine, we see how embracing bottom-up methodologies of collective, temporary occupation of vacant property can present innovative opportunities for unique in habitation.
Subject
Housing Crisis; Bottom-up Development; Vancouver; Squatting; Zine; Architecture; Social Architecture; Housing
Geographic Location
Vancouver (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2022-05-11
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0413546
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81489
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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