development pressures:“the passive, victimised or invisible other to global spaces and
processes”(Nagar et al, 2002: 265). Residual portions of land, abandoned buildings, derelict
areas, terrains vagues, which remain “definitely exogenous and extraneous, outside the
circuit of the productive structures of the city”(De Sola-Morales, 1995: 10) and are often able
to remain forgotten over time: as argued by Markusen (2004) it is not only the actors from …