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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Law and belonging in the urban context
chapter 3|20 pages
Discrepancy between legal approaches and policy goals
chapter 4|37 pages
Eviction as a tool for crime control
chapter 5|14 pages
Urban citizens and water
chapter 6|15 pages
Who owns the sidewalk?
chapter 7|12 pages
‘Better city, better life?’
part II|2 pages
Innovation and urban governance in legal perspective