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Analyzing the phenomenon of squats from the perspective of culture studies, one should make clear division between what constitutes unwritten rules and customs of a squat and cultural or social activities undertaken by most of squat activists. It is impossible to enclose the nature of the phenomenon in one rule or theory of everyday functioning of such communities. These are more cultures then one culture. And yet, what joins all communities living in the buildings “stolen from the city”, is a common model of social practice, based on anarchist rules of independence from state taxes, separation from the middleclass lifestyle, rejection of the idea of private property and a more or less established rule of common work.