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.

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• Introduction ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di FeliciantonioPart 1 ~ Rethinking Ruination in the Post-Crisis ContextRem(a)inders of Loss: A Lacanian Approach to New Urban Ruins ~ Lucas PohlDignifying the Ruins: A Former Jewish Girl’s School in Berlin ~ Karen E. TillTraversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard ~ Sandra JasperBuilding the New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia ~ Christina LeePart 2 ~ The Political Economy of Urban Vacant SpaceNullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture in the Settler-Colonial ‘Green City’ ~ Nathan McClintockConflicting Rationalities and Messy Actualities of Dealing With Vacant Housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany ~ Nina GribatPost-Disaster Ruins: The Old, the New, and the Temporary ~ Sara Caramaschi and Alessandro CoppolaThe Post-Crisis Properties of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan ~ Michael R.J. KoscielniakGuarding Presence: Absent Owners and the Labour of Managing Vacancy ~ Lauren WagnerPart 3 ~ Re-Appropriating Urban Vacant SpacesPoliticising Vacancy and Commoning Housing in Municipalist Barcelona ~ Mara FerreriSpatio-Legal World-making in Vacant Buildings: Property Politics and Squatting Movements in the City of São Paulo ~ Matthew Caulkins(Im)material Infrastructures and the Reproduction of Alternative Social Projects in Urban Vacant Spaces ~ Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Cian O’CallaghanTracing the Role of Material and Immaterial Infrastructures in Imagining Diverse Urban Futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House ~ Rachel McArdleConclusion: Centring Vacancy – Towards a Research Agenda ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio

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.

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• Introduction ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di FeliciantonioPart 1 ~ Rethinking Ruination in the Post-Crisis ContextRem(a)inders of Loss: A Lacanian Approach to New Urban Ruins ~ Lucas PohlDignifying the Ruins: A Former Jewish Girl’s School in Berlin ~ Karen E. TillTraversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard ~ Sandra JasperBuilding the New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia ~ Christina LeePart 2 ~ The Political Economy of Urban Vacant SpaceNullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture in the Settler-Colonial ‘Green City’ ~ Nathan McClintockConflicting Rationalities and Messy Actualities of Dealing With Vacant Housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany ~ Nina GribatPost-Disaster Ruins: The Old, the New, and the Temporary ~ Sara Caramaschi and Alessandro CoppolaThe Post-Crisis Properties of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan ~ Michael R.J. KoscielniakGuarding Presence: Absent Owners and the Labour of Managing Vacancy ~ Lauren WagnerPart 3 ~ Re-Appropriating Urban Vacant SpacesPoliticising Vacancy and Commoning Housing in Municipalist Barcelona ~ Mara FerreriSpatio-Legal World-making in Vacant Buildings: Property Politics and Squatting Movements in the City of São Paulo ~ Matthew Caulkins(Im)material Infrastructures and the Reproduction of Alternative Social Projects in Urban Vacant Spaces ~ Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Cian O’CallaghanTracing the Role of Material and Immaterial Infrastructures in Imagining Diverse Urban Futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House ~ Rachel McArdleConclusion: Centring Vacancy – Towards a Research Agenda ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio

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.

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• Introduction ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di FeliciantonioPart 1 ~ Rethinking Ruination in the Post-Crisis ContextRem(a)inders of Loss: A Lacanian Approach to New Urban Ruins ~ Lucas PohlDignifying the Ruins: A Former Jewish Girl’s School in Berlin ~ Karen E. TillTraversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard ~ Sandra JasperBuilding the New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia ~ Christina LeePart 2 ~ The Political Economy of Urban Vacant SpaceNullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture in the Settler-Colonial ‘Green City’ ~ Nathan McClintockConflicting Rationalities and Messy Actualities of Dealing With Vacant Housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany ~ Nina GribatPost-Disaster Ruins: The Old, the New, and the Temporary ~ Sara Caramaschi and Alessandro CoppolaThe Post-Crisis Properties of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan ~ Michael R.J. KoscielniakGuarding Presence: Absent Owners and the Labour of Managing Vacancy ~ Lauren WagnerPart 3 ~ Re-Appropriating Urban Vacant SpacesPoliticising Vacancy and Commoning Housing in Municipalist Barcelona ~ Mara FerreriSpatio-Legal World-making in Vacant Buildings: Property Politics and Squatting Movements in the City of São Paulo ~ Matthew Caulkins(Im)material Infrastructures and the Reproduction of Alternative Social Projects in Urban Vacant Spaces ~ Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Cian O’CallaghanTracing the Role of Material and Immaterial Infrastructures in Imagining Diverse Urban Futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House ~ Rachel McArdleConclusion: Centring Vacancy – Towards a Research Agenda ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio