Cargando…

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

This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. The contributors develop new empirical insights that rethink ruination, urban development and political contestation over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Callaghan, Cian
Otros Autores: Di Feliciantonio, Cesare
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_85331
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905052752.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 210807s2021 xx o 00 0 eng d
020 |a 9781447356899 
020 |z 9781447356875 
035 |a (OCoLC)1263024613 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a O'Callaghan, Cian. 
245 1 4 |a The New Urban Ruins :   |b Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City 
264 1 |a Bristol :  |b Policy Press,  |c 2021. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2021 
264 4 |c ©2021. 
300 |a 1 online resource (276 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a Urban Policy, Planning and the Built Environment 
500 |a Placing and planning demolition. 
500 |a Description based upon print version of record. 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
520 |a This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. The contributors develop new empirical insights that rethink ruination, urban development and political contestation over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
700 1 |a Di Feliciantonio, Cesare. 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/85331/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2021 Complete 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2021 History 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2021 Jewish Studies