+ From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:37:06 +0530
I'd rather be a hammer
Apr 4th 2007 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
Than a nail household. It gets clobbered in the end
AFP
IN CHINA, people who refuse to allow their homes to be demolished by developers are called “nail households”. Most end up being chased away by the developers' thugs or forcibly removed by police. But in recent weeks determined resistance by a couple in the south-western city of Chongqing turned a struggle for private-property rights into a cause célèbre. They have now reached agreement with the developers. But the debate will simmer on.
cont'd....
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8968483
Apr 4th 2007 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
Than a nail household. It gets clobbered in the end
AFP
IN CHINA, people who refuse to allow their homes to be demolished by developers are called “nail households”. Most end up being chased away by the developers' thugs or forcibly removed by police. But in recent weeks determined resistance by a couple in the south-western city of Chongqing turned a struggle for private-property rights into a cause célèbre. They have now reached agreement with the developers. But the debate will simmer on.
cont'd....
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8968483
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- developers/houses: Than a nail household [CN], Architexturez. (2007-04-11)
- Re: developers/houses: laneway housing [CA], Architexturez.
- Re: developers/houses: The Multiuser House [JP], Architexturez.
- developers: L.A.'s upscale downtown delayed, Architexturez-IN
- Developers: Let our cities reflect the new age (and the FoG, probably descends on Delhi in September), Architexturez.