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Global Perspectives in Urban Law : The Legal Power of Cities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351245692
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 342.09
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Law and belonging in the urban context -- 1. Contested values: how Jim Crow segregation ordinances redefined property rights -- Introduction -- I. An initial survey of litigation upholding and against segregation ordinances -- II. A shifting conception of property rights in the early 1900s -- III. The collective control of property through segregation ordinances -- IV. The state supreme court cases on residential segregation -- Conclusion -- 2. Privacy, participation and the city -- Introduction -- I. The right to the city -- II. Privacy in the city -- Conclusions -- 3. Discrepancy between legal approaches and policy goals: a case study of subsidized housing in Hong Kong -- Introduction -- I. Hong Kong's home ownership scheme -- II. Legal principles on beneficial property interest -- III. Judicial decisions involving home ownership scheme properties -- IV. Unresolved questions of eligibility and equitability -- Conclusion -- 4. Eviction as a tool for crime control: fighting drug-related crime in the Netherlands and the United States -- Introduction -- I. Drug evictions in the Netherlands -- II. Drug evictions in the United States -- III. Comparative analysis -- Concluding thoughts -- 5. Urban citizens and water: Johannesburg and Dublin's experience with the human right to water -- Introduction -- I. The human right to water - practice and law -- II. The human right to water in Johannesburg and Dublin -- III. Understanding the human right to water in light of state practice and local implementation -- Conclusion -- 6. Who owns the sidewalk? Analysing spatial reorganization amidst regulation and hierarchies in the Pondy Bazaar Street Market, Chennai, India -- Introduction.
I. Overview of the Pondy Bazaar study -- II. Locating Pondy Bazaar - subaltern urbanism on the streets? -- III. Informality from above: understanding the eviction and the incidence of costs -- IV. Auto constructed peripheries and geographically differentiated power relations: understanding the profit distribution -- Conclusions -- 7. 'Better city, better life?' Urban transformation and conflict management in the global south -- Introduction -- I. An overview of global urbanization -- II. (Re-)assessing governance -- III. A bottom-up approach? -- IV. Prospects for positive change -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Introduction -- I. Financing local governments in a recession -- II. Local governments' new funding tools -- III. Legal reforms necessary to accommodate local governments' new funding tools -- Conclusion -- 9. Keeping municipal law making democratic: a critical appraisal of the legal position of third party rights from the state of Victoria, Australia -- Introduction -- I. A case study - Melbourne, Australia -- II. Perceptions on local law making -- Conclusion -- 10. Saving sriracha, fighting city power: an LA school view of urban law in a hot sauce conflict -- Introduction -- I. The LA School of Urbanism -- II. Irwindale and sriracha -- III. Local nuisance over smelly hot sauce gets noticed -- IV. Urban law in Irwindale: from single-use to specific exclusion -- V. Law's duality in regional urbanization: local-influence and local-weakness -- Conclusion -- 11. Cities as stakeholders: corporate social responsibility in an urban environment -- Introduction -- I. Cities and corporations -- II. Cities as stakeholders -- Conclusion -- Index.
Summary: This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing, social and economic inequality and financial crises, and democratization and freedom for individual identity and space.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Law and belonging in the urban context -- 1. Contested values: how Jim Crow segregation ordinances redefined property rights -- Introduction -- I. An initial survey of litigation upholding and against segregation ordinances -- II. A shifting conception of property rights in the early 1900s -- III. The collective control of property through segregation ordinances -- IV. The state supreme court cases on residential segregation -- Conclusion -- 2. Privacy, participation and the city -- Introduction -- I. The right to the city -- II. Privacy in the city -- Conclusions -- 3. Discrepancy between legal approaches and policy goals: a case study of subsidized housing in Hong Kong -- Introduction -- I. Hong Kong's home ownership scheme -- II. Legal principles on beneficial property interest -- III. Judicial decisions involving home ownership scheme properties -- IV. Unresolved questions of eligibility and equitability -- Conclusion -- 4. Eviction as a tool for crime control: fighting drug-related crime in the Netherlands and the United States -- Introduction -- I. Drug evictions in the Netherlands -- II. Drug evictions in the United States -- III. Comparative analysis -- Concluding thoughts -- 5. Urban citizens and water: Johannesburg and Dublin's experience with the human right to water -- Introduction -- I. The human right to water - practice and law -- II. The human right to water in Johannesburg and Dublin -- III. Understanding the human right to water in light of state practice and local implementation -- Conclusion -- 6. Who owns the sidewalk? Analysing spatial reorganization amidst regulation and hierarchies in the Pondy Bazaar Street Market, Chennai, India -- Introduction.

I. Overview of the Pondy Bazaar study -- II. Locating Pondy Bazaar - subaltern urbanism on the streets? -- III. Informality from above: understanding the eviction and the incidence of costs -- IV. Auto constructed peripheries and geographically differentiated power relations: understanding the profit distribution -- Conclusions -- 7. 'Better city, better life?' Urban transformation and conflict management in the global south -- Introduction -- I. An overview of global urbanization -- II. (Re-)assessing governance -- III. A bottom-up approach? -- IV. Prospects for positive change -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Introduction -- I. Financing local governments in a recession -- II. Local governments' new funding tools -- III. Legal reforms necessary to accommodate local governments' new funding tools -- Conclusion -- 9. Keeping municipal law making democratic: a critical appraisal of the legal position of third party rights from the state of Victoria, Australia -- Introduction -- I. A case study - Melbourne, Australia -- II. Perceptions on local law making -- Conclusion -- 10. Saving sriracha, fighting city power: an LA school view of urban law in a hot sauce conflict -- Introduction -- I. The LA School of Urbanism -- II. Irwindale and sriracha -- III. Local nuisance over smelly hot sauce gets noticed -- IV. Urban law in Irwindale: from single-use to specific exclusion -- V. Law's duality in regional urbanization: local-influence and local-weakness -- Conclusion -- 11. Cities as stakeholders: corporate social responsibility in an urban environment -- Introduction -- I. Cities and corporations -- II. Cities as stakeholders -- Conclusion -- Index.

This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing, social and economic inequality and financial crises, and democratization and freedom for individual identity and space.

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