Editing Tent (section)

== Use ==
Tents are used as habitation by nomads, recreational campers, soldiers, and disaster victims. [[Pole marquees]], a type of large tent are typically used as overhead shelter for festivals, weddings, backyard parties, corporate events, excavation (construction) covers, and industrial shelters.

=== Traditional ===
[[File:BerberTentZagora.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Berber people|Berber]] tent near [[Zagora, Morocco]]]]
Tents have traditionally been used by [[nomad]]ic people all over the world, such as [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]], Mongolian, [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] and Tibetan Nomads, and the [[Bedouin]].

=== Military ===
[[File:USArmyTent.jpg|thumb|U.S. Army tent with constructed wooden entrance, air conditioner, and [[sandbags]] for protection. Victory Base, [[Baghdad]], Iraq (April 2004).]]
[[File:Insulated tent for heating personnel. Central military district. Siberia.jpg|thumb|Insulated tent for heating personnel. Central military district. Siberia]]
[[Army|Armies]] all over the world have long used tents as part of their working life. Tents are preferred by the military for their relatively quick setup and take down times, compared to more traditional shelters. One of the world's largest users of tents is the [[U.S. Department of Defense]]. The U.S. DoD has strict rules on tent quality and tent specifications. The most common tent uses for the military are temporary sleeping quarters (barracks); dining facilities (DFACs); field headquarters; morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) facilities; and security checkpoints. One of the most popular military designs currently fielded is the TEMPER Tent, an acronym for Tent Expandable Modular PERsonnel. The [[United States Army]] is beginning to use a more modern tent called the [[deployable rapid assembly shelter]] or DRASH, a collapsible tent with provisions for air conditioning and heating.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.natick.army.mil/about/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030429061540/http://www.natick.army.mil/about/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 29, 2003 |title=The United States Army |date=2009-10-20 |publisher=Natick.army.mil |access-date=2012-11-23}}</ref>

=== Recreational ===
[[Camping]] is a popular form of recreation which often involves the use of tents. A tent is economical and practical because of its portability and low environmental impact. These qualities are necessary when used in the wilderness or backcountry.

=== Emergency ===
{{See also|Emergency shelter}}
Tents are often used in humanitarian emergencies, such as [[war]], [[earthquake]]s and [[fire]]. The primary choice of tents in humanitarian emergencies are canvas tents,{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}} because a cotton canvas tent allows functional breathability while serving the purpose of temporary shelter. Tents distributed by organisations such as [[UNHCR]] are made by various manufacturers, depending on the region where the tents are deployed, as well as depending on the purpose.

At times, however, these temporary shelters become a permanent or semi-permanent home, especially for [[displaced people]] living in [[refugee camp]]s or [[shanty town]]s who can not return to their former home and for whom no replacement homes are made available.

====Homelessness====
Tents have been increasingly used as shelter for [[Homelessness in the United States|homeless people in the U.S.]], especially [[California]], [[Oregon]], and [[Washington state|Washington]]. Encampments spiked in the mid-to-late 2010s. [[Tent cities|These tent cities]] housing many homeless and travelers/[[vagabond]]s have also, are also commonly found in major cities in the South, including [[Austin, Texas]], which had passed a restriction on homeless encampments in May 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/795439405/sprawling-homeless-camps-modern-hoovervilles-vex-california|title= Sprawling Homeless Camps — Modern 'Hoovervilles' — Vex California|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=January 13, 2020|author=Westervelt, Eric}}</ref>

=== Protest movements ===
Tents are also often used as sites and symbols of protest over time. In 1968 [[Poor People's Campaign|Resurrection City]] saw hundreds of tents set up by anti-poverty campaigners in Washington D.C. In the 1970s and 1980s anti-nuclear peace camps spread across Europe and North America, with the largest women's-only camp to date set up outside the [[RAF Greenham Common]] United States airbase in Newbury, England to protest the deployment there of [[cruise missiles]] during the [[Cold War]]. The 1990s saw environmental protest camps as part of the campaign for the [[Clayoquot Sound]] in Canada and the [[Road protest in the United Kingdom|roads protests]] in the UK. The first [[No Border network|No Border Network]] camp was held in Strasbourg in 2002, becoming the first in a series of international camps that continue to be organised today. Other international camps of the 2000s include summit counter-mobilisations like Horizone at the [[Gleneagles G8 Summit|Gleneagles G8]] gathering in 2005 and the start of [[Camp for Climate Action]] in 2006. Since September 2011, the tent has been used as a symbol of the [[Occupy movement]],{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} an international protest movement which is primarily directed against economic and social inequality. Occupy protesters use tents to create camps in public places wherein they can form communities of open discussion and democratic action.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}