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Housing in the Margins
Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens
Hanna HilbrandtSeries: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change(0)
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“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
• 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