Everyday law on the street :
Valverde, Mariana, 1955-
Everyday law on the street : city governance in an age of diversity / Mariana Valverde. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012. - viii, 247 pages, [6] plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The Chicago series in law and society . - Chicago series in law and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index.
The law of the street corner -- The legal regulation of taste: annoying noises, unkempt yards, and the "quality and tranquility of life" -- City bureaucrats and village elders: the dysfunctional dance of local governance -- Law without rights: zoning, poverty, and the normative family home -- "Putting diversity on the menu": the municipal corporation and the micromanagement of street life -- Driving a taxi: city fathers' myth of immigrant self-employment -- From local to global and back again: mosques and the politics of local planning -- The death of planning and the challenges of diversity: concluding reflections.
9780226921891 (pbk.) Rs1559.00 0226921905 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Municipal government.
Municipal corporations.
City planning and redevelopment law.
320.85 VAL / 002082
Everyday law on the street : city governance in an age of diversity / Mariana Valverde. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012. - viii, 247 pages, [6] plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The Chicago series in law and society . - Chicago series in law and society. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index.
The law of the street corner -- The legal regulation of taste: annoying noises, unkempt yards, and the "quality and tranquility of life" -- City bureaucrats and village elders: the dysfunctional dance of local governance -- Law without rights: zoning, poverty, and the normative family home -- "Putting diversity on the menu": the municipal corporation and the micromanagement of street life -- Driving a taxi: city fathers' myth of immigrant self-employment -- From local to global and back again: mosques and the politics of local planning -- The death of planning and the challenges of diversity: concluding reflections.
9780226921891 (pbk.) Rs1559.00 0226921905 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Municipal government.
Municipal corporations.
City planning and redevelopment law.
320.85 VAL / 002082