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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262347853
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 16 October 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11731.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262347853
An architect and a photographer explore a community of squatters, artists, snowbirds, migrants, and survivalists inhabiting a former military base in the California desert. 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. In this book, architect Charlie Hailey and photographer Donovan Wylie explore the contradictions of Slab City. In a series of insightful texts and striking color photographs, Hailey and Wylie capture the texture of life in Slab City. They show us Slab Mart, a conflation of rubbish heap and recycling center; signs that declare Welcome to Slab City , T'ai Chi on the Slabs Every morning , and Don't fuck around ; RVs in conditions ranging from luxuriously roadworthy to immobile; shelters cloaked in pallets and palm fronds; and the alarmingly opaque water of the hot springs. At Camp Dunlap in the 1940s, Marines learned how to fight a war. In Slab City, civilians resort to their own wartime survival tactics. Is the current encampment an outpost of freedom, a new “city on a hill” built by the self-chosen, an inversion of Manifest Destiny, or is it a last vestige of freedom, tended by society's dispossessed? Officially, it is a town that doesn't exist. Research for this project was supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.