Housing in the Margins

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.

• 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

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