1. Introduction : exploring urban tainted spaces / Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tije-Dra -- 2. THe stigmatisation of Las Vegas and its inhabitants : the other side of the coin / Pascale Nedelec -- 3. Imaginary politics of the branded city : right-wing terrorism as a mediated object of stigmatisation / Lucas Pohl -- 4. Extensive territorial stigma and ways of coping with it : the stigmatisation of the Roma in Italy and France / Gaja Maestri -- 5. Redlining or renewal? The space-based construction of decay and its contestation through local agency in Brixton, Johannesburg / Christoph Haferburg and Marie Huchzermeyer -- 6. The 'not so good', the 'bad' and the 'ugly' : scripting the 'badlands' of housing market renewal / Lee Crookes -- 7. Opening the reputational gap / Hamis Kallin -- 8. Voices from the quartiers populaires : belonging to stigmatised French urban neighbourhoods / Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tije-Dra -- 9. 'This is my "Wo"' : making home in Shanghai's lower quarter / Yunpeng Zhang -- 10. From social hell to heaven? The intermingling processes of territorial stigmatisation, agency from below and gentrification in the Varjao, Brazil / Shadia Husseini de Araujo and Everaldo Batista da Costa -- 11. Researching territorial stigma with social housing tenants : tenant-led digital media production about people and place / Dallas Rogers, Michael Darcy and Kathy Arthurson -- 12. 'You have got to represent your ends' : youth territoriality in London / Adefemi Adekunle -- 13. Call it by its proper name! Territory-ism and territorial stigmatisation as a dynamic model : the case of Old Naledi / Klaus Geiselhart -- 14. Territorial stigmatisation, gentrification and class struggle : an interview with Tom Slater / Interviewed by Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tije-Dra -- 15. Conclusion : tainted urban spaces at the intersection of urban planning, politics of identity and urban capitalism / Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tije-Dra.