Contracting With Citizens - How Morals, Politics, and Laws Shape Cities

List of contents

List of tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Urban Ordering
1.1 Participation, Community Intermediaries, and Contracts
1.2 Institutional Change in Amsterdam, Hamburg And New York
1.3 Overview of The Book
Chapter 2: Research Strategy
2.1 Qualitative Strategy
2.2 Selection of Cities
2.3 Selection of Development Projects
2.4 Data Collection
2.5 Notes on Studying Contracts
Chapter 3: The Shifting of Orders
3.1 Planning Orders in Amsterdam
3.2 Planning Orders in Hamburg
3.2 Planning Orders in New York
3.4 Comparing Municipal Orders
3.5 Resistance from Below
Chapter 4: Institutional Contradictions and Change in Urban Politics
4.1 Institutional Contradictions
4.2 Moral Categories and Artifacts
4.3 Somewhere in Between the Private and the Public
4.4 From Rules to Enforcements
4.5 The Mechanics of Urban Politics
Chapter 5: Morals in the City: True Spokespersons and Principles
5.1 The City Planners Plan
5.2 Educating the Residents
5.3 The Residents Take Charge
5.4 The Moral Thread in Urban Politics
Chapter 6: Politics in the City: The Forming of Publics
6.1 Co-Option and Displacement
6.2 A Time for Compromise
6.3 The Political Thread in Urban Politics
Chapter 7: Law in the City: The Many Faces of Contracts
7.1 Neue Mitte Altona
7.2 Oostenburg-Noord
7.3 Kingsbridge Armory
7.4 Codifying Residents' Principles
7.5 The Legal Thread In Urban Politics
Chapter 8: Conclusion
8.1 How Morals, Politics, And Law Shape Urban Politics
8.2 A New Register Gaining Traction
8.3 A Research Agenda
8.4 A Policy Agenda
Index

About the author

E.W. (Michiel) Stapper has a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Geography, Planning, and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests lie in the intersection of cities, society, and the law. In 2020, he was awarded a Horizon Europe project as PI, investigating how the European Green Deal affects and involves marginalized communities. In 2023, he was awarded a Dutch Starter Grant for a project that conducts a socio-legal study of large-scale climate plans in the United States, European Union, Japan, and Korea.

Product details

• Authors: E.w. (Michiel) Stapper, Michiel Stapper
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032712826
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271282-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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