Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens

Housing in the Margins is a rich and original empirical data on the governance of housing precarity at the periphery of Berlin. * One of the few discussions of urban informality in Euro-American cities * An empirical exploration of the governance of housing precarity in Berlin * A novel theoretical approach to understanding the nexus of informality and the state * An innovative account of urban development in Berlin that bridges analytical divides between debates about Northern and Southern states * 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 allotments in Berlin