Law, Sensory Experience and Urban Space

The Making of the Regular City
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-138-63690-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Space, Materiality and the Normative

As many western countries are increasing their legal regulation and surveillance of public spaces, this book offers new ways of thinking about and addressing urban inhabitation, by showing how particular understandings of the world become entrenched through physical and sensory experience. Combining empirical work, analyses of cultural representations, historical research, and legal analysis, this book considers the ways in which urban regulation extends beyond written law, as it becomes interwoven with broader cultural concepts, images and representations. Taking the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study, the book looks at how the gridded structure of Melbourne’s city centre has, over time, been infiltrated with a network of small laneways. Beyond legal regulation, these overlooked and alternative public spaces offer a way of rethinking how we inhabit the city. More specifically, it is by attending to the embodied, sensory, experience of urban life that this book highlights the contingency of the city’s legal, political and social order. Denaturalising its established power and economic relations, it thus describes, not just the force, but also the fragility of the current regulatory processes through which urban subjectivity is conditioned.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodbourn, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART 1: EXPERIENCE AND POTENTIAL

Question: What is experience?

Chapter 1: The nature of laneways

Chapter 2: The matter of waste

Response: Experience is the present potential of excess

PART 2: OFF THE MAP

Question: What does it do to promote spaces ‘off the map’ as an escape?

Chapter 3: Lose yourself

Chapter 4: The cut

Response: The grid—the map—becomes the assumed norm

PART 3: THE EXPERIENCE OF ADDRESS

Question: How can we create an open address?

Chapter 5: Facing bodies

Chapter 6: Seats of inhabitation

Response: By inhabiting with others

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Goodbourn