Hanna Hilbrandt is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Zurich. Her research explores marginality and exclusion in housing and urban development as well as socio-spatial inequalities in the context of global economic restructuring. Focusing predominantly on Mexico City and Berlin, her work pays close attention to the everyday politics of city-making and the structural constraints in which such practises are inscribed.

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• List of Illustrations viSeries Editors’ Preface viiAcknowledgements viii1. Introduction: Housing in the Entanglements of Formality, Informality, and the State 12. Negotiating Formalities: Informality and the Everyday State 153. Footnotes on the History of Housing: Allotment Dwelling in Berlin, 1871–2019 314. Housing in the Margins: Halfway Between Exclusion and Homeownership 545. The Colony and the Turf: Planning and the Politics of Land Use Change 766. Constellations of Consent: Navigating the Politics of Regulatory Enforcement 977. Working the Legal Threshold: Regulation, Translation, and Boundary Work 1168. Conclusion: The “Gallic Village” 134Glossary of German Terms 144References 146Index 173