Everyday law on the street
Subtitle: city governance in an age of diversity
By: Mariana Valverde
Series: The Chicago series in law and society; Chicago series in law and society
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226921891; 9780226921907; 9780226921914
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: City planning and redevelopment law; Municipal government; Municipal corporations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The law of the street corner; title: The legal regulation of taste: annoying noises, unkempt yards, and the "quality and tranquility of life"; title: City bureaucrats and village elders: the dysfunctional dance of local governance; title: Law without rights: zoning, poverty, and the normative family home; title: "Putting diversity on the menu": the municipal corporation and the micromanagement of street life; title: Driving a taxi: city fathers' myth of immigrant self-employment; title: From local to global and back again: mosques and the politics of local planning; title: The death of planning and the challenges of diversity: concluding reflections.