Demolish your front fence. It would be an act of radical kindness
- Written by Katherine Wilson, Journalist, author and educator, Swinburne University of Technology
In 1924, Canberra’s civic planners placed a ban on front fences to stop people forming ghettos. Randy Fath/Unsplash
A few years ago, I reflected on years of doctoral field-notes documenting the homes of tinkerers — people with an extraordinary commitment to DIY living. It occurred to me that despite their DIY skills, few of these...
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