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Abahlali baseMjondolo assembly The Poor People's Alliance outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg in 2009. Several popular movements, such as the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, [11] the Right to the City Alliance in the United States, [12] Recht auf Stadt, [13] a network of squatters, tenants and artists in Hamburg, and various movements in Asia and ...
Towns were often "free", in the sense that they were directly protected by the king or emperor, and were not part of a feudal fief. Today, the process for granting is determined by the type of government of the state in question. In monarchies, charters are still often a royal charter given by the Crown or the authorities acting on behalf of ...
The right to the city is a concept coined by Henri Lefebvre in his 1968 book Le Droit à la ville.Lefebvre has an idea of space that encompasses perceived space, conceived space, and lived space. [2]
The borough charter of Flensburg (1284) Medieval square in Spišská Sobota, Slovakia (now in Poprad).The former name of the town literally means "Saturday in Spiš" and it is derived from a day of week in which the town was granted a right to organize a market.
Old French law, referred to in French as l'Ancien Droit, was the law of the Kingdom of France until the French Revolution. In the north of France were the Pays de coutumes ('customary countries'), where customary laws were in force, while in the south were the Pays de droit écrit ('countries of written law'), where Roman law had been
The Meaning of the City is a theological essay by Jacques Ellul which recounts the story of the city in the Bible and seeks to explain the city's biblical significance.. Ellul wrote the book in 1951; it was published in English translation in 1970, and then in French in 1975 as Sans feu ni lieu : Signification biblique de la Grande Ville.
Gaston Jèze (March 2, 1869, Toulouse – August 5, 1953, Deauville) was a French academic, humanitarian and human rights activist.He was a professor of public law and the resident of the International Law Institute.
The term droit is also used in various legal connexions (i.e., French law), such as the droit of angary, the droit d'achat (right of pre-emption) in the case of contraband, the feudal droit de bris (see wreck), the droit de regale or ancient royal privilege of claiming the revenues and patronage of a vacant bishopric, and the feudal droites of ...