Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures and tables ix
4. Notes on contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Rethinking ruination in the post-crisis context
8. Rem(a)inders of loss: a Lacanian approach to new urban ruins 21
9. Dignifying the ruins: a former Jewish girls’ school in Berlin 35
10. Traversing wastelands: reflections on an abandoned railway yard 53
11. Building the new urban ruin: the ghost city of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia 73
12. The political economy of urban vacant space
13. Nullius no more? Valorising vacancy through urban agriculture in the settler-colonial ‘green city’ 91
14. Conflicting rationalities and messy actualities of dealing with vacant housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany 109
15. Post-disaster ruins: the old, the new and the temporary 125
16. The post-crisis properties of demolishing Detroit, Michigan 145
17. Guarding presence: absent owners and the labour of managing vacancy 163
18. Reappropriating urban vacant spaces
19. Politicising vacancy and commoning housing in municipalist Barcelona 181
20. Spatio-legal world-making in vacant buildings: property politics and squatting movements in the city of São Paulo 197
21. (Im)Material infrastructures and the reproduction of alternative social projects in urban vacant spaces 211
22. Tracing the role of material and immaterial infrastructures in imagining diverse urban futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House 229
23. Conclusion: Centring vacancy – towards a research agenda 243
24. Index 251