A sporadically recurring topic here at greg.org, the non-shipping use of shipping containers. [Instigating post here, extensive post here.]
Shipping container used in an illegal Israeli outpost, image:nytimes.comSamantha Shapiro's NYTimes Mag story, "The Unsettlers," profiles young, militant Israelis who pioneer illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Shipping container used in an illegal Israeli outpost in the Jordan Valley, image:metropolismag.comStephen Zacks' review in the Feb. 2003 Metropolis of a (cancelled) exhibit on architecture and urban planning in the West Bank, where Israeli hilltop settlements use suburban sprawl to control the surrounding territory. Architect Eyal Weizman: "It's almost like you have a model of the terrain and you cut a section at say six hundred meters, and everything that's above is Israeli. What was created was an incredible fragmentation of the terrain into two systems that work across the vertical axis." The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has published Weizman's exhaustively documented settlement map of the West Bank.
For all your settling needs, illegal or otherwise, the Shipping Container Store: passing the mountainous container landscape along the NJ Turnpike, I saw Interport Maintenance Corp., which sells shipping containers. Delivery is extra.
