The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City

ISBN-13: 9781447356882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 276 str.

Cian O'Callaghan; Cesare Di Feliciantonio

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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