Hailey, Charlie, 1970- author.

Slab City : dispatches from the last free place / Charlie Hailey ; photographs by Donovan Wylie.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
©2018

175 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 folded map (18 x 16 cm)

Under the unforgiving sun of southern California's Colorado Desert lies Slab City, a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, survivalists, and homeless people. Called by some "the last free place" and by others "an enclave of anarchy," Slab City is also the end of the road for many. Without official electricity, running water, sewers, or trash pickup, Slab City dwellers also live without law enforcement, taxation, or administration. Built on the concrete slabs of Camp Dunlap, an abandoned Marine training base, the settlement maintains its off-grid aspirations within the site's residual military perimeters and gridded street layout; off-grid is really in-grid. Architect Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie explore the contradictions of Slab City.

9780262038355 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262038358 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

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Wylie, Donovan, 1971- photographer.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 302745
Cote: BIB 248876
Statut: Disponible