Paul Kirkness is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.Andreas Tijé-Dra is a Human Geographer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

• 1. Introduction 2.The Stigmatization of Las Vegas and its Inhabitants: The Other Side of the Coin 3. Imaginary Politics of the Branded City: Right-wing Terrorism as a Mediated Object of Stigmatization 4. The Stigmatisation of the Roma in Italy and France: Extensive Territorial Stigma and Ways of Coping With It 5. Redlining or Renewal? The Space-based Construction of Decay and its Contestation through Local Agency Brixton, Johannesburg 6. The ‘Not So Good’, the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Ugly’: Scripting the ‘Badlands’ of Housing Market Renewal 7. Opening the Reputational Rent Gap 8. Voices from the Quartiers Populaires: Belonging to Stigmatised French Urban Neighbourhoods 9. "This is my ‘Wo’": Making Home in Shanghai’s Lower Quarter 10. From Social Hell to Heaven? The Intermingling Processes of Territorial Stigmatization, Agency from Below and Gentrification in the Varjão, Brazil 11. Researching Territorial Stigma with Social Housing Tenants: Tenant-led Digital Media Production about People and Place 12. You Have Got to Represent your Ends": Youth territoriality in London 13. Call it by its Name! Territory-ism and Territorial Stigmatisation as a Dynamic Model: The case of Old Naledi 14. Territorial Stigmatisation, Gentrification and Class Struggle: An interview with Tom Slater 15. Conclusion: Tainted Urban Spaces at the Intersection of Urban Planning, Politics of Identity and Urban Capitalism