Law and the City [Hardcover]

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 and at the same time problematizing the reader, this volume is an innovative collection of truly global dimensions that will prove compelling reading both for specialists and for critical travellers.

Introduction: 'In the Lawscape'  Part 1: Architectonics of Power  1. 'Berlin: The Untrusted Centre of the Law'  2. 'Moscow: Third Rome, Model Communist City, Eurasian Antagonist - and Power as No-Power?'  3. 'Istanbul, Political Islam and the Law: the Paradox of Modernity'  Part 2: Streets of the Real  4. 'Homophobic Violence in London: Challenging Assumptions about Strangers, Dangers and Safety in the City'  5. 'Singapore: The One-Night Stand with the Law, Lah'  6. 'Panjim: Realms of Law and Imagination'  Part 3: Legality, Illegality, Legitimacy  7. 'Athens: The Boundless City and the Crisis of Law'  8. 'Mexico City: The City and its Law in Eight Episodes, 1940 - 2005'  9. 'Law l��