New book by Hanna!
Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens
New book out by upZ founding member Hanna Hilbrandt in the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series!
Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin.
An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German housing crisis
A novel approach to theorizing the nexus of informality and the state in ways that bridge analytical divides between debates about Northern and Southern states
An innovative account of urban development in Berlin that contributes to the limited discussions of urban informality in Euro-American cities
A theoretical understanding of the ways in which negotiations and transgressions are embedded in the making of urban order
A historically informed narrative of the development of allotment gardens in Berlin with a particular focus on housing practices at these sites
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vi
Series Editors’ Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
1. Introduction: Housing in the Entanglements of Formality, Informality, and the State 1
2. Negotiating Formalities: Informality and the Everyday State 15
3. Footnotes on the History of Housing: Allotment Dwelling in Berlin, 1871–2019 31
4. Housing in the Margins: Halfway Between Exclusion and Homeownership 54
5. The Colony and the Turf: Planning and the Politics of Land Use Change 76
6. Constellations of Consent: Navigating the Politics of Regulatory Enforcement 97
7. Working the Legal Threshold: Regulation, Translation, and Boundary Work 116
8. Conclusion: The “Gallic Village” 134
Glossary of German Terms 144
References 146
Index 173