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

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, Urban Politics And International Experiments In The Post- Crisis City -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures And Tables -- Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Empty Cities -- Ruins, Rubble And The Vacant Spaces In Between -- On The Relationship Between Ruins And Vacant Spaces -- On Urban Vacancy As An Ordinary Component Of Urbanisation -- On Ruins And Urban Vacant Spaces As Political Antagonism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References Part I Rethinking Ruination In The Post-crisis Context -- 1 Rem(a)inders Of Loss: A Lacanian Approach To New Urban Ruins -- What Is New About New Urban Ruins? -- Post-crisis Cities: A Lacanian Approach -- Rem(a)inders -- Enjoyment Of Ruins -- There Is No Comeback! -- Traversing The Ruin's Fantasy -- Notes -- References -- 2 Dignifying The Ruins: A Former Jewish Girls' School In Berlin -- Introduction -- Ruins In Wounded Cities -- Interim Space In Berlin -- (re)animating Ruins In Berlin: The Denkraum -- Conclusions -- 3 Traversing Wastelands: Reflections On An Abandoned Railway Yard Introduction -- Urban Wilderness On The Periphery -- Compensation Landscapes -- Speculative Ecologies -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 4 Building The New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City Of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia -- Introduction -- Pretty Vacant: Ordos Kangbashi As China's Pre-eminent Ghost City -- New Urban Ruins: Spaces Of Alterity And Slow Time -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Part Ii The Political Economy Of Urban Vacant Space -- 5 Nullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture In The Settler-colonial 'green City' -- Introduction Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture -- Settler Urbanism, Racial Capitalism And Vacancy -- Nullius No More? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Conflicting Rationalities And Messy Actualities Of Dealing With Vacant Housing In Halle/saale, East Germany -- Introduction: Conceptualising Urban Vacancy -- Neustadt And Glaucha In Context: The Emergence Of Vacant Housing -- Different Rationalities And Messy Actualities Of Vacant Housing In Halle/saale: Excess Versus Opportunity -- Neustadt: Vacant (public) Housing As Excess -- Glaucha: Vacant Housing As An Opportunity For Urban Change Conclusions: Contrasting Approaches And Their Wider Sociopolitical Implications -- Notes -- References -- 7 Post-disaster Ruins: The Old, The New And The Temporary -- Introduction -- L'aquila, A Post-disaster City -- Reconstruction Stories: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly -- The Bothersome Emptiness Of Newly Rebuilt Historical Dwellings -- The Predictable Abandonment And Obsolescence Of The 'enhanced Temporariness' Complexes -- The Ruination Of Damaged Public Housing -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 The Post-crisis Properties Of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan Edited By Cian O'callaghan And Cesare Di Feliciantonio. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.