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Translation
A home owned by those who live in it: translating Colin Ward
Colin Ward's Housing: An Anarchist Approach (1976) has been translated into Korean. Ward held that good housing is not supplied from above but grows out of the hands and choices of the dwellers themselves. Fifty years on, this view from Britain is still unfamiliar in Korea's supplier-led housing debate, which is exactly why the question it asks is needed: to whom does the home belong?