International Journal of Law in the Built Environment: Volume 7 Issue 1

Law, sex and the city: regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales

Philip Hubbard

This paper aims to explore how municipal law, in its various guises, serves to police the boundaries of acceptable sexual conduct by considering how Sexual Entertainment Venues…

Legal orderings of waste in built spaces

Kate Parizeau, Josh Lepawsky

– This paper aims to investigate by what means and to what ends waste, its materiality and its symbolic meanings are legally regulated in built environments.

Illegal geographies of the state: the legalisation of a “squatter” settlement in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Craig Hatcher

This paper aims to problematise the relation between “legality” and the state, through a case study analysis of law at work within the built environment. In doing so, the paper…

‘Temporary’ relocation: spaces of contradiction in South African law

Duncan Ranslem

This study aims to examine how temporary relocation areas (TRAs), urban forms that facilitate evictions and forced relocations, have been written into South African legal and…

Grounding accumulation by dispossession in everyday life: The unjust geographies of urban regeneration under the Private Finance Initiative

Stuart Hodkinson, Chris Essen

This paper aims to ground Harvey’s (2003) top-down theory of “accumulation by dispossession” in the everyday lives of people and places with specific focus on the role of law. It…

There are eight million stories in The Naked City

Luke Bennett, Antonia Layard