Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Roof Rights


Cairo's squatters have taken to the rooftops, as this dispatch from Reuters details. Rents down below can be 10 times as much as the price of roof space.

(thanks to Ted C. for the link)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeah heard about the roof rights :) we're writing an essay on your ted talk haha :D

janettezen said...

just reading by chance about roof rights and this extraordinary writer who spent two years....
just a word to underline the word: right in general, we're going to forget...rights....as well as life

Matthew Bartlett said...

link dead, alas

(beautiful blog, btw)

(and thanks for the LongNow talk)