Description

Squatting; the real story

Compiled by Nick Wates.
Edited by Nick Wates and Christian Wolmar.
Published by Bay Leaf Books, 1980.

Written by Nick Anning, Celia Brown, Piers Corbyn, Andrew Friend, Mark Gimson, Andrew Ingham, Pat Moan, Tom Osborn, Ann Pettitt, Steve Platt, Jill Simpson, Colin Ward, David Watkinson, Heathcote Williams and Tristan Wood.

Photos by Camera Press, Mike Goldwater, Adam Harvey, David Hoffman, Aden Kelly, Ray Morris, Martin Slavin, Tony Sleep, Union Place Collective, Dave Walkling and many others.

Designed by Caroline Lwin. Illustrated by Andy Milburn.

Sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

240 pages, 464 black and white photos.
Paperback  ISBN 0 9507259 1 9
Hardback  ISBN 0 9507259 0 0

‘The first well-researched, fully illustrated coffee table squatting book…a cheerful celebration of a living movement’
John Forsyth, Time Out, 6 February 1981

‘…lucid, well-packaged, amusing and serious…a cornucopia of excellence.’
Undercurrents, April 1981

‘…an invaluable source book…its design is a joy to look at and the illustrations are sharp and to the point.’
Rodney Mace, Morning Star, 2 January 1981

‘…a really super book on one of the truly moving issues of our time…. well written and brilliantly produced.”
Gair Rhydd, 14 January 1981

‘This excellent and thoroughly researched book…should be in every housing department in the land.’
Brian Lake, Architects’ Journal, 18 February 1981

‘The many facets of squatting…are brilliantly evoked both in the text and the numerous well chosen illustrations…. the book is designed with great flair and imagination and has been beautifully produced.’
Nick Raynsford, Voluntary Action, Spring 1981