Hanna Hilbrandt

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Housing in the Margins (eBook, ePUB)

Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens

Beschreibung

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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Autor

Hanna Hilbrandt is assistant professor of social and cultural geography at the University of Zurich. Her research explores marginality and exclusion in housing and urban development as well as socio-spatial inequalities in the context of global economic restructuring. Focusing predominantly on Mexico City and Berlin, her work pays close attention to the everyday politics of city-making and the structural constraints in which such practises are inscribed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119540908
• Artikelnr.: 62217277

Rezensionen

'Housing in the Margins is a journey into normal-yet-transgressive living spaces on the periphery of Berlin. Hilbrandt powerfully rethinks statehood as the ordinary enactment of negotiation, shattering along the way the tired but all-too-persistent division between the global "North and South."'
Julie-Anne Boudreau, Institut national de la recherche scientifique and Instituto de Geografía UNAM

'This is a truly remarkable book. It incorporates a rich discussion of the lived experience of informal housing in Berlin's allotment gardens. But, in doing so, it also requires us to rethink how urban space is negotiated from below as well as above.'
Allan Cochrane, Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies, The Open University, UK

'Hanna Hilbrandt's study generates new openings for urban studies to think urban informality, negotiated governance, and housing across the global north and south. Firmly rooted in Berlin's distinctive history, this is a very welcome contributionto theorising the urban globally.'
Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College London, U