The city in the constitutional imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10855161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Loughlin (0000-0002-6102-6453, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 356-371 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | University of Toronto Law Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0220 • E-ISSN: 1710-1174 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/utlj-2021-0099 |
| OpenAlex | W3213682929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay reviews Ran Hirschl’s City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity, a study of ‘the great constitutional silence concerning one of the most significant phenomena of our time: urban agglomeration and the rise of megacities’ and which maintains that the solution to contemporary urban problems crucially depends on a ‘constitutional emancipation’ of the city. The essay argues that Hirschl is unable to deliver on his major claim. Launching his thesis on a skewed account of the development of the political role of the city, a one-sided presentation of the constitutional order of the modern state, and a failure to appreciate the impact of urbanization on the city’s standing as a unit of government, Hirschl ignores the work of public lawyers on the challenges of metropolitan government and argues, unconvincingly, that these challenges can be resolved once we turn to the abstractions of constitutional theory
Aesthetics · City-state · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Emancipation · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Megacity · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · State (computer science · Urbanization · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Law, Rights, and Freedoms
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |