Law and the City

Name: Law and the City
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ISBN: 9780415420341

ISBN-10: 0415420342

ISBN-13: 9780415420341

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

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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 laws spatiality and urban legal locality an unfolding of both the juridical urban body and the citys legal dreams, of both the urban law and the juridical polis. Enlightening…

Book details

List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.17" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990



Notes on contributors


Introduction: in the lawscape




Architectonics of power



Berlin: the untrusted centre of the law




Moscow: Third Rome, model communist city, Eurasian antagonist - and power as no-power?




Istanbul, political Islam and the law: the paradox of modernity




Streets of the real



Homophobic violence in London: challenging assumptions about strangers, dangers and safety in the city




Singapore: the one-night stand with the law




Panjim: realms of law and imagination




Legality/illegality/legitimacy



Athens: the boundless city and the crisis of law




Mexico City: the city and its law in eight episodes, 1940-2005




Law and the poor: the case of Dar es Salaam




The other intramuros



Toronto: a 'multicultural' urban order




Sydney: aspiration, asylum and the denial of the 'right to the city'




Johannesburg: a tale of two cases




Lines of lawscapes



Brasilia: utopia postponed




Cyber cities: under construction




First we take Manhattan: microtopia and grammatology in Gotham



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