Since the banking crisis of 2008, thousands of development sites associated with regeneration projects and construction booms in cities and towns across Europe and the Americas remain either partially inhabited or entirely abandoned, or have been 'revived' and used for purposes for which they were not originally intended. Drawing on in depth ethnographic and archaeological research undertaken at a number of development sites in Edinburgh, Scotland, Capital Ruins examines how people live and engage with these sites today. It explores the ways in which they understand and experience these sites...