Index

and global financial crisis

and homelessness

Ireland

–

–

and Jewish girls’ school, Berlin

and neoliberalism

and residents’ participation

–

Rome

–

São Paulo

–

and social function of property

–

–

and urban agriculture

–

and vacant housing

–

–

and vacant space/land

–

and volunteers

–

and wastelands, Berlin

see also

social movements

;

social projects, alternative

;

squatting/occupation

Acuerdo Ciutadano, Barcelona

Adamo Group

AEG electric company

affluence

agriculture, urban

–

and activism

–

and appropriation/reappropriation

–

and capitalism

–

and capitalist urbanisation

and commons

and displacement/dispossession

and entrepreneurship

and gentrification

–

and green cities

and Indigenous people

–

104n1

and land use

and race issues

and reclamation

and settler colonialism

–

and sustainability

–

and use value

and wastelands

–

Airbnb

Akers, J.

AKT Peerless

–

alcohol consumption

‘Altergrowth’ project

110

Alternative Liste: Für Demokratie und Umweltschutz environmental party

amenities, social and civic

133

American dream

Anderson, J.

231

Andreucci, D.

148

antagonism, political

–

anti-Semitism

Apollo House, Dublin

Apostolopoulou, E. and Adams, W.M.

appropriation/reappropriation

and infrastructures

–

and urban agriculture

–

Arendt, Hannah

–

Argent Securities

art galleries, international

artistic initiatives

Halle/Saale, East Germany

–

and infrastructures

and wastelands, Berlin

Asmus, Ullrich

Atuahene, B.

Audin, J.

‘Auditorium Elements and Origins of Totalitarianism’ installation (Hefti, Hofer and Oettli)

–

austerity measures

and infrastructures

autogestion

–

Azienda Territoriale per l’Edilizia Residenziale (ATER)

137

B

backfilling

–

–

Backfill Material Programme

149

back-to-the-city movement

Badiou, A.

Barcelona

–

–

Barcelona en Comú (BnC)

Barcelona Housing Obsevatory (O-HB)

Beer, Alexander

Behrens, Alfred

Behrens, Peter

Benjamin, W.

Berlin

–

activism

artistic initiatives

–

and biotopes/biodiversity/ecology

–

gentrification

–

parks/leisure spaces

see also

Jewish life and culture

;

wastelands

Berliner Stadtbahnbilder film

‘Bertolt Brecht’ grammar school, Berlin

biotope, urban

–

Bloc Llavors, Barcelona

190

191

Board of Third Sector Organisations, Catalonia

Bolt Hostel, Dublin

–

–

Brazil

see also

São Paulo, Brazil

Bresnihan, P. and Byrne, M.

buildings, vacants see

housing, vacant

C

Candidatura d’Unitat Popular (CUP)

capitalism

–

racial

and urban agriculture

–

Caramaschi, Sara

–

–

care, ethics of

Carpenters Estate, London

181

Cartesian notion of empty space

CASE, ‘sustainable and eco-commpatible anti-seismic complexes’

128

–

castration

Catalonia

Caulkins, Matthew

–

celebrity endorsement

230

Celtic Tiger era, Ireland

86n7

cens d’habitatge buits

census 2010, Brazil

census 2011, Spain

Charta für das Berliner Stadtgrün

China

–

see also

‘ghost cities’, Chinese

;

Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia

Choy, T.

Citibank

201

cities, empty

–

see also

‘ghost cities’, Chinese

;

housing, vacant

cities, green

cities, post-crisis

–

cities, wounded

–

City Statute, São Paulo

civic society

120

Cochrane, A.

colonialism, settler

–

commercial property market

–

commodification

commons, urban

–

and infrastructures

–

–

and urban agriculture

and vacant housing

Communia initiative, San Lorenzo

–

–

communities/neighbourhoods

–

–

CONFABV

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)

Connolly, C.

conservation/conservation areas

consierges see

guardianship

Constitution, Brazil

–

construction, cyclical

Coppola, Alessandro

–

–

cortiços

Coulthard, G.S.

‘Council of 11’

Cover, R.

–

COVID-19 pandemic

–

–

224

Crowne Plaza, Ordos

Cultural and Art Centre, Kangbashi

culture

Berlin

–

cultural heritage

cultural initiatives

Jewish life and culture

Curtis Street, Detroit

153

D

data collection

–

–

death drive

–

decay

decentralisation

133

dehumanisation

deindustrialisation

Delaney, D.

democracy

demolition

–

–

De Moor, J.

Departamento da Função Social da Propriedade (DFSP)

202

203

Department of Housing, Dublin

Department of Social Protection, Dublin

dereliction see

demolition

DeSilvey, C. and Edensor, T.

Desimini, J.

de Soto, H.

Detroit, Michigan

–

–

and backfilling

–

–

and environmental issues

–

and gentrification

and HHF

–

153

and homeownership

–

and land use

and land value

Michigan Central Station

–

and mortgages

–

redevelopment

–

–

–

and rentiership

Detroit Blight Removal Task Force (DBRTF)

145

Detroit Building Authority (DBA)

Detroit City Council

156

Detroit Demolition Programme (DDP)

–

Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA)

Detroit Planning and Development Department

Deutsche Bahn AG

D’habitatge buit a habitatge social working group

Di Feliciantonio, Cesare

–

–

–

difference, social

Diggable City report

–

dignity restoration

–

Dikeç, M.

Dillon, B.

Dillon, L.

Di Palma, V.

dirt

disadvantage, social

disasters, natural

‘Discovery Day Open Glaucha’ event

discrimination

displacement/dispossession

DMC group

–

Dolar, M.

Donald, S.H. and Lindner, C.

donations

–

Doron, G.M.

Dublin

–

–

Apollo House

Bolt Hostel

–

–

and emergency housing

–

–

homelessness

–

and housing crisis

and neoliberalism

and squatting/occupation

Dublin City Council

–

Dudow, Slátan

Duggan, Mike

145

E

ecology

–

Ehemalige Jüdische Mädschenschule Berlin

empowerment

235

enjoyment

–

entrances, single

entrepreneurship

environmental issues

–

149

–

154

see also

biotope, urban

;

ecology

;

wastelands

Europa Risorse fund

127

128

everyday life

eviction

–

exclusion

experience, lived

–

exploitation

154

172

F

fantasy

–

–

Farkas, Brian

favelas

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

Ferguson Street, Detroit

Ferreri, Mara

–

film production

financialisation of housing

Focus E15

Ford Motor Company

–

Forkert, K.

Forouhar, Parastou

Foucault, M.

110

Frente Luta e Moradia

202

Freud, S.

–

Fuchs, Michael

Fullilove, M.T.

Funken, P.

Future World, Ordos Kangbashi

G

Galster, G.C.

–

García-Lamarca, M.

247

gardens

–

Genghis Khan Square, Ordos Kangbashi

–

genocide

–

gentrification

–

199

Berlin

–

Detroit

146

and urban agriculture

–

and vacant space/land

German Democratic Republic (GDR)

111

Germany see

Berlin

;

Halle/Saale, East Germany

;

wastelands

‘ghost cities’, Chinese

–

and abandonment

–

and lived experience

–

local government

residents in

–

and urbanisation

–

ghost estates, Ireland

Gilbert, Dan

Glaucha, Halle/Saale

–

global financial crisis 2008 (GFC)

–

and activism

and infrastructures

and vacant housing

–

and vacant space/land

217

‘Global War on Terror’

Gobi Desert

Google Earth

Gordillo, G.R.

graffiti

Great Recession

green corridors

Gribat, Nina

–

121

Griessmühle club

Grüne Mitte plan

guardianship

–

–

H

habitats

–

Halle/Saale, East Germany

–

artistic initiatives

–

Glaucha

–

and ISEK

Neustadt

–

population figures

problematisation

Stadtumbau Ost programme

–

and state subsidisation

119

120

Hammet, Beate

‘Hannah Arendt Denkraum’ exhibition, Berlin

–

Hard, G.

Hardest Hit Funds (HHF)

–

153

Harvey, D.

health, mental and social

Hearne, R.

229

histories

Hocking, Scott

homelessness

–

and activism

Dublin

–

and infrastructures

Ireland

and vacant housing

Home Sweet Home (HSH)

Hotel Neustadt

housing, emergency

–

–

housing, excess

–

housing, high-rise

housing, luxury

–

housing, private

housing, public see

housing, social

181

and post-disaster redevelopment

–

and vacant housing

–

–

housing, temporary

–

housing, vacant

–

–

and activism

–

Barcelona

–

and eviction

São Paulo

–

and squatting/occupation

–

–

as a catalyst for action

and commons

and conservation/conservation areas

and data collection

–

–

and demolition

–

and displacement/dispossession

and excess housing

–

and financialisation of housing

182

183

188

and global financial crisis

–

and homelessness

and investment in property

–

and oversupply of housing

–

131

and post-disaster redevelopment

–

131

and problematisation

and property ownership

–

and public housing companies

and real estate investment trusts (REITS)

–

and refurbishment

and restructuring

and rightsizing

and social housing

–

–

and socially productve use

and social movements

–

Spain

–

–

and symbolic value

and taxation

and temporary use

and tourism

and urban change

–

and urban vacancy

–

see also

Barcelona

;

‘ghost cities’, Chinese

;

Halle/Saale, East Germany

;

São Paulo, Brazil

housing as capital

housing associations

housing crisis

Dublin

and infrastructures

Spain

and wastelands

housing insecurity

housing market

housing policy, GDR

housing politics

–

housing rights

housing stock

–

housing vouchers

128

Huron, A.

214

Huyssen, A.

I

impacts, social and environmental

–

imperialism, European

165

–

Indigenous lands and people

–

inequality, social

–

elites, propertied

low-income people

infrastructure, social

212

infrastructures, (im)material

–

–

and activism

–

–

and alternative social projects

212

213

–

215

and appropriation/reappropriation

–

and artistic initiatives

230

and austerity measures

and commons

–

–

and cultures of resistance

Dublin

–

–

and emergency housing

–

–

and global financial crisis

and homelessness

and housing crisis

and neoliberalism

and ownership

Rome

–

–

and social movements

–

–

and speculation

and squatting/occupation

–

–

–

–

inhabitants, local

innovation

Integriertes Stadtentwicklungskonzept (ISEK) policy document

International Building Exhibition Urban Renewal Saxony-Anhalt (IBA)

120

121n7

investment

–

and demolition

São Paulo

and vacant housing

–

Ireland

see also

Dublin

Irish Housing Network (IHN)

–

–

–

Izair Skender

J

Jacobs, J.

173

Jasper, Sandra

–

Jewish Community of Berlin (JCB)

Jewish girls’ school, Berlin

–

Jewish Heritage Europe

Jewish life and culture

and race issues

Jews, Moroccan

Jofa-Atelier film studios

Johannisthal airport, Berlin

justice, social

–

224

justice, social and ecological

–

justice, spatial and restorative

–

K

Katzir, Ram ‘Milk Teeth’ sculpture

King, T.L.

Kitchin, R.

Kolorado initiative

115

Koscielniak, Michael R.J.

145

–

157

Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt film

Kunst-Werk Institute for Contemporary Art (KW)

–

L

labour, forced

Lacanian psychoanalytic theory

–

Lachmund, J.

Landau, R.

land contracts

land prices

landscape design

land use

and demolition

and urban agriculture

see also

vacant space/land

land value

L’Aquilla, Italy

–

–

see also

redevelopment, post-disaster

law/legality

–

Brazilian law

–

Lee, Christina

–

Lefebvre, H.

LGBTQ events, Berlin

lifeworlds

‘Liquid Urbanisms’

Lisbon

lived experience

–

lizards

Llei pel Dret a l’Habitatge de Catalunya

local government

–

location of housing

–

logics, spatio-legal

–

logic of public administration

–

market logic

and productivity

–

see also

squatting/occupation

loss

–

and enjoyment

–

and fantasy

–

–

and remainders

–

Lynch, T.

Lyons, S.

M

M7G interview

219

Macaulay, R.

–

maintenance

139

152

169

MAP, ‘provisional habitation module’

127

128

market potential

146

197

202

Martin, D.

Mauerweg, Berlin

McArdle, Rachel

229

–

238

248

McClintock, Nathan

–

104

McFarlane, C.

212

McGowan, T.

–

McKittrick, K.

memorials

memory

Michigan Central Station, Detroit

–

Michigan Central Station Preservation Society

Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA)

migrants/migration

and absent ownership

–

–

–

Minha Casa Minha Vida programme

mining industry

M interview

222

mobility, circulatory

–

–

–

mobility, population

modernisation

Montreal, Canada

mortgages

–

Motor City Mapping

Movimento Moradia Luta e Justiça (MMLJ)

201

–

Müggelsee, lake

MUSP (‘provisional school use module’)

136

N

National Assets Management Agency (NAMA)

National Demolition Association (NDA)

146

National Forum for Urban Reform

National Socialism

–

Natur-Park Südgelände, Schöneberg

neglect

neoliberalism

and activism

Neustadt, Halle/Saale

–

Newham, East London

New Synagogue, Berlin

New York High Line model

Nicholls, W.

214

Niederschöneweide, Berlin

nightlife

218

‘nomos’

199

–

non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

135

non-human life

–

nostalgia

Noterman, E.

215

O

Oberschöneweide, Berlin

obsolescence

–

136

139

O’Callaghan, Cian

–

–

–

occupancy rates

offsetting

Ökokonto strategy

Omplim els buits programme

Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia

–

Ordos Library, Ordos Kangbashi

Ordos Museum, Ordos Kangbashi

86n4

Otherness

–

oversupply of housing

–

131

see also

‘ghost cities’, Chinese

ownership

and demolition

–

and social class

and spatio-legal logics

and vacant housing

see also

housing, social

;

property development

;

property rights

;

squatting/occupation

ownership, absent

–

and abandonment

–

and guardianship

–

–

and housing as capital

164

169

175

and migrants/migration

–

–

–

and mobility

–

–

–

and second homes

–

and squatters

and tourism

and vacancy management

171

–

174

175

ownership, private

and demolition

–

and post-disaster redevelopment

133

134

and squatting/occupation

and vacant housing

–

ownership, public

P

P21 interview

219

Paperson, L.

Park am Gleisdreieck, Kreuzberg

parking

171

–

172

parks/leisure spaces

Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT)

194

203

‘Petrification/Versteinerung’ installation

–

Pettino area, L’Aquilla

137

Pisos Buits programme, Barcelona

planning, urban

Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), Spain

Pohl, Lucas

–

–

policing of squatters in vacant buildings

political economy

see also

agriculture, urban

;

demolition

;

Halle/Saale, East Germany

;

ownership, absent

;

redevelopment, post-disaster

population density

Portland, Oregon

–

post-crisis period

post-crisis cities

–

post-crisis objects

post-crisis properties

–

–

Postkult initiative

–

Povinelli, E.

Prestes Maia, São Paulo

problematisation

productivity, social and economic

–

profitability

–

Prohabit website

property development

see also

redevelopment, post-disaster

property rights

–

property studies

psychoanalysis, Lacanian

–

psychogeography

public housing companies

public-private partnerships

public services

Purcell, M.

Q

quality of construction

Quest, Richard

–

R

race issues

and Jewish life and culture

and urban agriculture

railway zones, abandoned see

wastelands

real estate investment trusts (REITS)

–

reclamation

record keeping

–

Redell Salter

redevelopment

–

–

–

Detroit

–

–

–

redevelopment, post-disaster

–

–

and abandonment

131

and disadvantage

and oversupply of housing

–

131

and private ownership

and reconstruction

–

–

and social housing

–

and state support

and students

and temporary housing

–

and urban planning

and vacant housing

–

131

refurbishment

regeneration, urban

–

Registre d’habitatges buits o amb ocupants sense títol habilitant

regulations, stratification of

138

remainders

–

‘remittance houses’

–

rental agents

rented property

rent gap

rentiership

rent increases

REO Nationwide Inc

reparation payments

resettlement

–

Residential Tenancies Board, Dublin

221

residents in ghost cities

–

residents’ participation

–

207

resistance, cultures of

214

218

restructuring, with/without priority

119

121

reunification of Germany

–

rightsizing

Robinson, M.

Rome

–

Roseler, Martha, ‘Reading Hannah Arendt (Politically)’

Roy, A.

rubble

ruination

–

–

169

see also

redevelopment, post-disaster

ruin lust/ruin porn

–

ruins

–

ancient/classical

–

and decay

modern

–

130

131

post-disaster

–

–

pre-earthquake

130

131

see also

agriculture, urban

;

housing, vacant

;

Jewish girls’ school, Berlin

;

Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia

;

wastelands

S

Safransky, S.

–

183

sanctions

187

San Francisco

San Lorenzo, Rome

São Paulo, Brazil

–

–

S. Bates Street, Birmingham

156

Schneider, Greg

Schöneweide railway yard

–

second homes

–

segregation, social

–

self-determination

Seymour, E.

Shepard, W.

Siegmund, Judith

Simone, A.

slums

Smith, N.

social class

social function of property

–

–

social movements

and alternative social projects

–

and cultures of resistance

and data collection

and squatting/occupation

–

–

see also

social projects, alternative

–

–

Take Back the City (TBTC) movement

and urban change

–

and vacant space/land

–

–

social relationships

soil testing

Soja, E.

Sorace, C. and Hurst, W.

source washing

154

156

space, conceived and lived

space, public

–

Spain

–

–

see also

Barcelona

Spanish people

167

Special Office for the Reconstruction, L’Aquilla

131

speculation

sprawl, urban

squatting/occupation

–

–

–

–

and absent ownership

and alternative social projects

–

–

Apollo House

Bolt Hostel

–

–

Communia initiative

–

–

Prestes Maia

and social movements

–

–

Stadtumbau Ost programme

–

state support

Stone Crest Income & Investment Opportunity Fund 1

stories, intergenerational transmission of

Stout Street, Detroit

–

students

subjectivity

subsidisation, state

168

Südgelände railway yard, Berlin

Sukopp, Herbert

support groups

–

surveillance

–

sustainability

–

symbolic statements

symbolic value

symbols of prosperity

T

Take Back the City (TBTC) movement

Tangier, Morocco

–

–

see also

guardianship

;

ownership, absent

Tangier International Zone management

taxation

–

technicians, nomospheric

Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin

–

tenants

Terra nullius

Thurber, A. and Fraser, J.

Till, Karen E.

–

231

time

–

Torrens, Maria Rovira

totalitarianism

tourism

and absent ownership

and vacant housing

trade

trade unions

Trigg, D,

Tronto, J.C.

–

U

underoccupation

131

unemployment

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

United States

universities

unremarkableness

urban change

–

urban development

–

104

urbanisation

–

and ghost cities

–

and urban agriculture

urbanisation, capitalist

urbanisation, shadow

urbanism, austerity

239

urbanism, settler

–

urban political economy

urban shrinkage

121n7

urbs nullius

use, socially productive

use, temporary

use value

V

vacancy see

housing, vacant

;

vacant space/land

vacancy, cyclical

vacancy management

–

vacant space/land

–

and alternative social projects

–

–

and entrepreneurship

and gentrification

and global financial crisis 2008 (GFC)

217

see also

demolition

;

wastelands

value, symbolic

value grabbing

Vancouver, Canada

vandalism

Vasudevan, A.

Vauras Investment

Vergara, C.J.

Villes sans Bidonvilles initiative

167

violence

state

–

‘Vocation - Job Graft. Labour Work Action’ course

volunteers

–

Vonovia, real estate company

W

Wagner, Lauren

163

–

175

Wagner, Martin

waiting lists

Wang, Laura

–

‘waste’

wastelands

217

Berlin

–

and activism

and artistic initiatives

and biotopes/biodiversity/ecology

–

and conservation/conservation areas

and green corridors

and housing crisis

and leisure space

and non-human life

–

and offsetting

Schöneweide railway yard

–

and urban planning

and urban agriculture

–

water charges movement

Wayne County Sheriff and Treasurer