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
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Series Editors’ Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
1. Introduction: Housing in the Entanglements of Formality, Informality, and the State 1
2. Negotiating Formalities: Informality and the Everyday State 15
3. Footnotes on the History of Housing: Allotment Dwelling in Berlin, 1871-2019 31
4. Housing in the Margins: Halfway Between Exclusion and Homeownership 54
5. The Colony and the Turf: Planning and the Politics of Land Use Change 76
6. Constellations of Consent: Navigating the Politics of Regulatory Enforcement 97
7. Working the Legal Threshold: Regulation, Translation, and Boundary Work 116
8. Conclusion: The “Gallic Village” 134
Glossary of German Terms 144
References 146
Index 173
