Colin Ward

Colin Ward is the chronicler of popular and unofficial uses of the landscape. His many books cover New Towns, holiday camps, tenant control of housing, plotlands and many examples of anarchy in action. His latest book is Cotters and Squatters housings hidden history (£9.99 from Five Leaves Books, PO Box 81, Nottingham NG5 4ER).

The worldwide one-night house

Scattered around the world there is a belief that if you can build a house between sunset and sunrise, then the alleged owner of the land cannot evict you. There

By Colin Ward

/ 7 Nov 2002