This timely Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings on the relation between law and geography in an effort to clarify the connections between these two increasingly complex concepts.List of Contributors.
Foreword (Gordon L. Clark).
Preface: Where is law (David Delaney, Richard T. Ford, and Nicholas Blomley).
Acknowledgments. .
Part I: Legal Places.
Section 1: Public Space.
Introduction (Nicholas Blomley).
1. The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and Implications of Anti-Homeless Laws in the United States (Don Mitchell).
2. Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Skid Rows and Public-Space Zoning (Robert. C. Ellickson).
3. Girls and the Getaway: Cars, Culture, and the Predicament of Gendered Space (Carol. Sanger).
4. Out of Place: Symbolic Domains, Religious Rights and the Cultural Contract (Davina Cooper).
Section 2: Local Racisms and the Law.
Introduction (Richard T. Ford).
5. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Interpretations of Geography in School Desegregation Cases (David Delaney).
6. Polluting the Body Politic: Race and Urban Location (David Theo Goldberg).
7. The Boundaries of Race: Political Geography in Legal Analysis (Richard T. Ford).
8. The Legitimacy of Judicial Decision Making in the Context of Richmond v Croson (Gordon L. Clark).
Section 3: Property and the City.
Introduction (Nicholas Blomley).
9. Landscapes of Property (Nicholas Blomley).
10. Residential Rent Control (Margaret Radin).
11. Suspended in Space: Bedouins Under the Law of Israel (Ronen Shamir).
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