New Urban Ruins

Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5687-5
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Urban Policy, Planning and the Built Environment

This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy.

Centering urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, the contributors coalesce new empirical insights on the impacts of recent contestations over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe.

Using international case studies from the Global North and Global South, it sheds important new light on the complexity of forces and processes shaping urban vacancy and its re-use, exploring these areas as both lived spaces and sites of political antagonism. It explores what has and hasn’t worked in re-purposing vacant sites and provides sustainable blueprints for future development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Callaghan, Cian

Di Feliciantonio, Cesare

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio

Part 1 ~ Rethinking Ruination in the Post-Crisis Context

Rem(a)inders of Loss: A Lacanian Approach to New Urban Ruins ~ Lucas Pohl

Dignifying the Ruins: A Former Jewish Girl’s School in Berlin ~ Karen E. Till

Traversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard ~ Sandra Jasper

Building the New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia ~ Christina Lee

Part 2 ~ The Political Economy of Urban Vacant Space

Nullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture in the Settler-Colonial ‘Green City’ ~ Nathan McClintock

Conflicting Rationalities and Messy Actualities of Dealing With Vacant Housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany ~ Nina Gribat

Post-Disaster Ruins: The Old, the New, and the Temporary ~ Sara Caramaschi and Alessandro Coppola

The Post-Crisis Properties of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan ~ Michael R.J. Koscielniak

Guarding Presence: Absent Owners and the Labour of Managing Vacancy ~ Lauren Wagner

Part 3 ~ Re-Appropriating Urban Vacant Spaces

Politicising Vacancy and Commoning Housing in Municipalist Barcelona ~ Mara Ferreri

Spatio-Legal World-making in Vacant Buildings: Property Politics and Squatting Movements in the City of São Paulo ~ Matthew Caulkins

(Im)material Infrastructures and the Reproduction of Alternative Social Projects in Urban Vacant Spaces ~ Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Cian O’Callaghan

Tracing the Role of Material and Immaterial Infrastructures in Imagining Diverse Urban Futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House ~ Rachel McArdle

Conclusion: Centring Vacancy – Towards a Research Agenda ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio

Über Autor(innen)

O'Callaghan, Cian
Cian O’Callaghan is Assistant Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. His main research interests include creativity and place, neoliberalism, and political contestations over the re-use of Ireland’s ‘new ruins’.

Cian O’Callaghan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Trinity College Dublin.

Cesare Di Feliciantonio is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University.