ABSTRACT

The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing, to social and economic inequality and financial crises, and democratization and freedom for individual identity and space. Particularly now, social, economic, and cultural issues must be closely examined in conjunction with the rule of law not only to address inadequate access to basic services, but also to construct long-term plans for our cities and our world—a bright, safe future.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|2 pages

Law and belonging in the urban context

chapter 1|20 pages

Contested values

7How Jim Crow segregation ordinances redefined property rights

chapter 3|20 pages

Discrepancy between legal approaches and policy goals

A case study of subsidized housing in Hong Kong

chapter 4|37 pages

Eviction as a tool for crime control

Fighting drug-related crime in the Netherlands and the United States

chapter 5|14 pages

Urban citizens and water

Johannesburg and Dublin’s experience with the human right to water

chapter 6|15 pages

Who owns the sidewalk?

Analysing spatial reorganization amidst regulation and hierarchies in the Pondy Bazaar Street Market, Chennai, India

chapter 7|12 pages

‘Better city, better life?’

Urban transformation and conflict management in the global south

part II|2 pages

Innovation and urban governance in legal perspective

chapter 8|29 pages

Financing local governments in times of recession

143Financial and legal innovation in the face of the 2008 crisis

chapter 9|12 pages

Keeping municipal law making democratic

A critical appraisal of the legal position of third party rights from the state of Victoria, Australia

chapter 10|27 pages

Saving sriracha, fighting city power

An LA school view of urban law in a hot sauce conflict

chapter 11|14 pages

Cities as stakeholders

Corporate social responsibility in an urban environment