The Hollow City: Examining the Socio-Spatial Conditions of Redevelopment and Marginalisation in Belfast’s Market Community Part 2 Dissertation 2026 Adam O’Neill Ulster University | UK This dissertation investigates how planning and redevelopment strategies, from the security-led approaches of the Troubles to contemporary neoliberal regeneration, have shaped the socio-spatial marginalisation of Belfast’s Market community. Employing a qualitative, triangulated methodology, it combines semi-structured interviews, narrative walkabouts, and archival analysis with critical theoretical frameworks drawn from Foucault (1979), Harvey (2005), Goffman (1961), and Brown (2015).The findings reveal four interlocking forces defining the Market’s urban condition: Displace, Contain, Develop, and Resist. Together, they expose how power operates spatially through governance, planning, and market-led redevelopment, displacing communities while presenting the processes as progress. Yet, alongside this marginalisation, the study highlights the Market community’s resilience and activism as forms of spatial resistance and collective agency. By integrating theory, lived experience, and spatial observation, the research contributes to broader debates on equitable regeneration, revealing the enduring power structures embedded in Belfast’s post-conflict urban landscape. Tutor(s) David Coyles