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Global Perspectives in Urban Law: The Legal Power of Cities
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.
Author(s) | Edited by Nestor M. Davidson, Geeta Tewari. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 248 |
Published in | United States |
Published | 13 Dec 2018 |
Availability | Available |
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.
Introduction; Part I: Law and belonging in the urban context; 1. Contested values: how Jim Crow segregation ordinances redefined property rights; 2. Privacy, participation and the city; 3. Discrepancy between legal approaches and policy goals: a case stud
Nestor M. Davidson is the Albert A. Walsh Chair Professor of Real Estate, Land Use and Property Law at Fordham Law School and the Faculty Director of the Urban Law Center. Professor Davidson has published widely in the fields of property theory, urban law