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

Description

This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. Centering urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, the contributors coalesce new empirical insights on the impacts of recent contestations over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe. Using international case studies from the Global North and Global South, it sheds important new light on the complexity of forces and processes shaping urban vacancy and its re-use, exploring these areas as both lived spaces and sites of political antagonism. It explores what has and hasn't worked in re-purposing vacant sites and provides sustainable blueprints for future development.

Cian O'Callaghan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. Cesare Di Feliciantonio is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University.

"The New Urban Ruins challenges understandings of urban vacancy to expose its complexities, its vibrant politics and possibilities. It will be a key resource for urbanists, especially as they address cities' emergence from Covid-19." Pauline McGuirk, University of Wollongong "As we move towards the post-COVID city, analyses of ruins as vacant sites/forms can no-longer be ignored. This superb, inter-disciplinary, global collection gives us all the conceptual and methodological tools we need for the task. A must read for all in urban studies." Loretta Lees, University of Leicester