The Geography of Law: Landscape, Identity And Regulation (Onati International Series in Law and Society)

The essays in this collection relate notions of space and representations of interior and exterior spaces to concerns for individual identity and autonomy as these are framed by practices of governance or codified by law. These essays examine the manner in which imaginative frameworks forming an environment for human action are objectified through practices aimed at governing relations between people or conversely, the way in which legal codes and statutes rely upon there being a relationship between individuals and their surroundings. The Geography of Law brings together research from a range of disciplines to question how urban spaces, works of architecture and landscape, and representations of socio-legal ideas in texts, city plans, and paintings, engage with the construction of identity, character, and values, both historically and the present day. Essayists question the usefulness of space and regulation as categories of critical analysis, scrutinize familiar uses of these categories, and invent new ones. This motivation behind the collection is based on an assumption that space and law carry moral worth and elicit moral considerations however variable their value might be. The essays in this collection relate notions of space and representations of interior and exterior spaces to concerns for individual identity and autonomy as these are framed by practices of governance or codified by law. They examine the manner in which imaginative frameworks forming an environment for human action are objectified through practices aimed at governing relations between people or conversely, the way in which legal codes and statutes rely upon there being a relationship between individuals and their surroundings. The Geography of Law brings together research from a range of disciplines to question how urban spaces, works of architecture and landscape, and representations of socio-legal ideas in texts, city plans and paintings, engage with the construction of identity, character and values, both historically and the present day. Essayists question the usefulness of space and regulation as categories of critical analysis, scrutinize familiar uses of these categories and invent new ones. This motivation behind the collection is based on an assumption that space and law carry moral worth and elicit moral considerations however variable their value might be. Contributors: Michael Austin (Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Unitec, Auckland) Richard Blythe (Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Tasmania, He is also a founding partner of the Sydney/Hobart based architectural practice Terroir) Michael Levine (Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Perth) Peter Kuch (Professor in the School of English, University of New South Wales, Sydney) John Macarthur (Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane) Kristine Miller (Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) Richard Mohr (Co-director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre and Head of Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia) George Pavlich (Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton) William Taylor (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of Western Australia, Perth) Half Title Page......Page 2 Half Title verso......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Title verso......Page 5 Acknowledgement......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 10 Introduction: Landscape, Identity and Regulation......Page 12 1. Territory, Landscape and Law in Three Images of the Basque Country......Page 28 THE LAW OF THE LAND......Page 31 PLURAL LAWS......Page 34 LAWS OF PEOPLE......Page 36 PRACTICES OF SPACE, LAW AND REPRESENTATION......Page 39 PART I......Page 44 PART II......Page 51 PART III......Page 53 PART IV......Page 55 3. Visual Appropriation and Property in the Theory of Humphry Repton......Page 60 4. Visualising Comfort: Aspect, Prospect and Controlling Privacy in The Gentleman's House (1864)......Page 76 THE GENTLEMAN’S HOUSE......Page 78 CHARACTERISING THE INHABITANT......Page 83 THE COMFORT ZONE......Page 86 THE DESIRE FOR COMFORT......Page 90 5. Accusation: Landscapes of Exclusion......Page 96 REMEMBERING AN ETYMOLOGICAL BEQUEST: TO ‘ACCUSE’......Page 97 SCHOLASTIC THINKING: AGAINST AQUINAS ON ACCUSATION AND THE COMMON GOOD......Page 98 THE ACCUSED’S SKIN AS EXEMPLUM: EXCRETING SISAMNES......Page 101 ACCUSING SOCRATES: THE OTHER IDENTITY......Page 106 6. Natives, Savages, and People - The Enlightened Observations of Governor Arthur Phillip and Judge Advocate, Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins......Page 112 7. Maori Views of Landscape in Aotearoa/New Zealand......Page 126 8. The Idea of the Town: The Structuring of City Space in a Nineteenth Century Colonial Town......Page 136 9. Art or Lunch: Designing a Public Space for New York's Federal Plaza......Page 148 TILTED ARC......Page 149 JACOB JAVITS PLAZA AND THE ‘USE’ OF PUBLIC SPACE......Page 153 Index......Page 160 Territory, Landscape, And Law In Three Images Of The Basque Landscape / Richard Mohr -- Taste, Judgment, And Ethics : Philosophical Aspects Of Discourse On Landscape, Law, And Identity / Michael Levine -- Visual Appropriation And Property In The Theory Of Humphry Repton / John Macarthur -- Visualising Comfort : Aspect, Prospect, And Controlling Privacy In The Gentleman's House (1864) / William Taylor -- Accusation : Landscapes Of Exclusion / George Pavlich -- Natives, Savages, And People--the Enlightened Observations Of Governor Arthur Phillip And Judge Advocate, Lieutenant-colonel David Collins / Peter Kuch -- Maori Views Of Landscape In Aotearoa/new Zealand / Michael Austin -- The Idea Of The Town : The Structuring Of City Space In A Nineteenth Century Colonial Town / Richard Blythe -- Art Or Lunch : Designing A Public Space For New York's Federal Plaza / Kristine Miller. Edited By William Taylor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.