From JOTWELL's Legal History Section, we have a short
review of
Mariana Valverde,
Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Reviewer
Elizabeth Dale (University of Florida) begins by recounting her own early obsession with Jane Jacobs's
Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). Here's a snippet from further on:
I started reading Mariana Valverde’s recent book, Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity
(2012), a study of street-level urban governance in Toronto, because it
promised a law and society alternative to Jacobs’ work. But while I
came, so to speak, for the law and society recasting of Jacobs, I stayed
for the reminders her work offers legal historians.
The full
review is available here.
