Law And The City

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Overview

Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective.

An invaluable 'guide' to adopting a different approach to the city and its history, culture and everyday experience, Law and the City is not simply an exploration of the relationship between these two spheres.

It details:

  • a flourishing of law’s spatiality and urban legal locality

  • an unfolding of both the juridical urban body and the city’s legal dreams, of both the ‘urban law’ and the ‘juridical polis’.

Enlightening and at the same time problematizing the reader, this volume is an innovative collection of truly global dimensions that will prove compelling reading both for specialists and for critical travellers.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781904385547
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication date: 2/20/2007
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Table of Contents


Notes on contributors     ix
Introduction: in the lawscape   Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos     1
Architectonics of power     21
Berlin: the untrusted centre of the law   Chris Thornhill     23
Moscow: Third Rome, model communist city, Eurasian antagonist - and power as no-power?   Bill Bowring     39
Istanbul, political Islam and the law: the paradox of modernity   Penny Green     55
Streets of the real     75
Homophobic violence in London: challenging assumptions about strangers, dangers and safety in the city   Leslie J Moran     77
Singapore: the one-night stand with the law   Thilo Tetzlaff     97
Panjim: realms of law and imagination   Jason Keith Fernandes     113
Legality/illegality/legitimacy     131
Athens: the boundless city and the crisis of law   Julia H Chryssostalis     133
Mexico City: the city and its law in eight episodes, 1940-2005   Antonio Azuela     153
Law and the poor: the case of Dar es Salaam   Patrick McAuslan     171
The other intramuros     189
Toronto: a 'multicultural' urban order   Mariana Valverde     191
Sydney: aspiration, asylum and the denial ofthe 'right to the city'   Chris Butler     205
Johannesburg: a tale of two cases   Johan Van Der Walt     221
Lines of lawscapes     237
Brasilia: utopia postponed   Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos     239
Cyber cities: under construction   Bela Chatterjee     255
First we take Manhattan: microtopia and grammatology in Gotham   Peter Goodrich     271
Index     285
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