A Reading List on Exclusion and Racism in the Legal History in the United States
Desiree Valadares presents a reading list that explores "the law’s historical role in the constitution of space, place, the body, and various other modalities of belonging in the U.S."
"The focus lies primarily on integrating legal history texts into architectural scholarship to examine race (and its intersections) and to trace changing legal notions of property, territory, nationhood, and citizenship," explains Valaderes.
Reading recommendations on two themes, exclusion and segregation, follow.
The first theme, Exclusion, is concerned with the ways in which the Right of First Possession, Trespass Laws, Vagrancy Laws, Nuisance Laws, Zoning and Eviction excludes and “others” undesirable groups.
The second, Segregation, looks at Alien Land Acts, Zoning Laws, Restrictive Covenants, Historic Districting, Redlining, Utility Easements, and Right-of-Way isolates and divides space.
Topics
- Top Urban City Building Games in 2019
- The Wonderful World of Vicious Circles
- The Boring Company Gets Paid
- Planning and the Public Trust
- 2019 ParkScore Rankings Now Available
- Study: How Beauty Is a Boon for Cities
- Streets in Dense Urban Areas Safer Than Suburban 'Stroads,' Study Finds
- New Grocery Chain on the Block Offers an Alternative to the Walmarts of the World
- The Political Segregation of U.S. Cities
- Was King's Landing Worth Saving?
- Revealed: Plans for Makeover of the World's Busiest Bus Terminal
- Are U.S. Homeless Worse Off Than India's Poor?
- From April to May in L.A.: From a Green New Deal to Transit Service Cuts
- The Cities With the Most Homeless Students
- Philadelphia Could Hit the Brakes on Housing
- Transit Needs Improvements Sooner Rather Than Later
- How One Town Solved its ADU Regulation Challenges
- State Supreme Court Upholds Food Truck Regulations in Chicago
- Drop the Ballyhoo: Where Do Educated Millennials Actually Live?
- Embedded Planning Movement Gains Traction
