forts

Builders in the 1970s and ’80s that took cues from prisons, military forts and overseas embassies, a collective paranoid tendency Davis summarized as the fortress city.

A children’s author recalls playing beneath tables and inside forts.

As German troops tried to cross the Meuse River and storm the defensive forts, the Belgians opened fire and drove them back.

The lumber harvested from them allows us to build durable homes, outdoor decks, pergolas, play sets, forts, furniture and countless other indoor and outdoor projects.

But private landowners say the scale of countryside fly-tipping is forcing them to turn farms into "medieval forts".