Global Perspectives in Urban Law : The Legal Power of Cities / edited by Nestor M. Davidson and Geeta Tewari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davidson, Nestor M., editor.

Tewari, Geeta, editor.

Series:

Juris diversitas.

Juris diversitas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--Law and legislation.

Local government.

Municipal corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Law and Belonging in the Urban Context

1. Contested Values: How Jim Crow Segregation Ordinances Redefined Property Rights - Laura Delgado and Justin Steil

2. Privacy, Participation and the City - Abigail Jackson and Julian Sidoli del Ceno

3. Discrepancy between Legal Approaches and Policy Goals: A Case Study of Subsidized Housing in Hong Kong - Alice Lee and Phoebe Woo

4. Eviction as a Tool for Crime Control: Fighting Drug-Related Crime in the Netherlands and the United States - L. Michelle Bruijnand Michel Vols

5. Urban Citizens and Water: Johannesburg and Dublins Experience with the Human Right to Water - Scott McKenzie

6. Who Owns the Sidewalk? Analysing Spatial Reorganization Amidst Regulation and Hierarchies in the Pondy Bazaar Street Market, Chennai, India - Padmapriya Govindarajan

7. Better City, Better Life? Urban Transformation and Conflict Management in the Global South - Malcolm MacLaren

Part II: Innovation and Urban Governance in Legal Perspective

8. Financing Local Governments in Times of Recession: Financial and Legal Innovation in the Face of the 2008 Crisis - Daniel B. Rodriguez and Nadav Shoked

9. Keeping Municipal Law-Making Democratic: A Critical Appraisal of the Legal Position of Third Party Rights from the State of Victoria, Australia -Rebecca Leshinsky

10. Saving Sriracha, Fighting City Power: An LA School View of Urban Law in a Hot Sauce Conflict - Ernesto Hernndez-Lpez

11. Cities as Stakeholders: Corporate Social Responsibility in an Urban Environment - Ronit Donyets Kedar.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-24570-8

1-351-24568-6

1-351-24569-4

9781351245708

OCLC:

1076573464