ABSTRACT
This chapter is a socio-spatial analysis of injecting drug use in public space; in a
more general sense it is an account of the ways in which marginal spaces of the
city are used for marginal activities and the formation of marginalized identities.
It focuses on one urban district in Melbourne which became, for a time, strongly
identified with heroin sale and use. Selling activities were camouflaged within a
diverse streetlife while injecting sites were dispersed throughout laneways, car
