Land Use and Society

Platt, Rutherford H.

doi:10.5822/978-1-61091-455-0

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“…This relationship has been considered from the perspectives of different aspects, according to the researcher's own field. Rutherford Platt, who defines himself as both a lawyer and geographer, explored the 'influence of law over the human use of land' [31] (p. 7). In his book Land Use and Society, he explains this interaction as follows:…”

Section: Law and Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement of Disability Rights via Geographic Information Science

Kocaman

Özdemir

2020

Sustainability

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Rights, legal regulations, and practices often arise from societal and scientific developments, and societal transformations may originate from new legal regulations as well. Basic rights can be re-defined with advancements in science and technology. In such an evolutional loop, where mutual supply is obvious, combined legal and technological frameworks should be exercised and developed for practicing human rights. The main aim of this article is to propose a conceptual and methodological framework for the improvement of disability rights in the light of recent advancements in geographic information science (GIScience), in particular for those with motor disabilities, for whom questions related to “where” are essential. The concept of disability is discussed, considering different aspects, and a new methodological framework is proposed in which Geographic Information Systems (GIS), volunteered geographic information (VGI) and citizen science are at the core. In order to implement the framework at the national and international levels, a spatial data model should be developed first. The new data collection and interpretation approaches based on VGI, citizen science, and machine learning methods may help to realize equal rights for people with motor disabilities, by enabling improved access to education, health, and travel.

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Section: Law and Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement of Disability Rights via Geographic Information Science

Kocaman

Özdemir

2020

Sustainability

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“…Blomley (), for instance, argued that while law is constitutive of social life, the closure of the law to outside analysis had impoverished scholarly attempts to integrate legal structures with the social and the spatial. Attempts to remedy this have taken a variety of forms, including, among many others, the importance of the assertion of territorial jurisdiction (Ford ), the effects of globalization and capital on the closure of space for the homeless (Mitchell ), or the rhetoric of the law focused on rurality and rural people (Pruitt ); how law, technology, and geography form land use policies and practices (Platt ); and how to assess the crossroads where law, space, and power meet in unconventional ways, including thinking about the law in “more performative and material terms” (Delaney , 19). Law, space, and materiality are here conceptualized as power‐laden terms that are complicated, contested, and interactive.…”

Section: Law Environment and Environmental Precedentmentioning

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Breaking the Divide: Setting Environmental Precedent in the Chicago River

Besek

Shtob

2019

Law & Policy

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Here we argue that sociolegal processes can not only restructure social relationships through setting legal precedent but can also restructure socioenvironmental relationships through setting what we call “environmental precedent.” By environmental precedent we mean the environmental consequences of legal processes, environmental consequences that then become the new, dynamic material reality for future legal processes. We apply the concept of environmental precedent to a legal history of the Chicago River, using this case to illustrate how interactions between sociolegal and environmental processes can set environmental precedent in a way that reshuffles the social and material foundations of future legal processes.

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“…Importantly, however, most of these policies applied fairly evenly across the country. At the local level, government regulation was relatively weak and primarily directed towards sanitary improvements (Platt (1996)). Lee (1984) reports that, in 1881, the middle of our study period, the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors employed 12.5%, 52.6% and 34.7% of British workers, respectively.…”

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Agglomeration: A long-run panel data approach

Hanlon¹,

Miscio

2017

Journal of Urban Economics

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This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by incorporating within and cross-industry spillovers into a dynamic spatial equilibrium model in order to obtain a panel data estimating equation. This gives us a framework for measuring a rich set of agglomeration forces while controlling for a variety of potentially confounding effects. We apply this estimation strategy to detailed new data describing the industry composition of 31 English cities from 1851-1911. Our results show that industries grew more rapidly in cities where they had more local suppliers or other occupationallysimilar industries. We find no evidence of dynamic within-industry effects, i.e., industries generally did not grow more rapidly in cities in which they were already large. Once we control for these agglomeration forces, we find evidence of strong dynamic congestion forces related to city size. We also show how to construct estimates of the combined strength of the many agglomeration forces in our model. These results suggest a lower bound estimate of the strength of agglomeration forces equivalent to a city-size divergence rate of 1.6-2.3% per decade.

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Land Use and Society

Cited by 31 publications

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Improvement of Disability Rights via Geographic Information Science

Improvement of Disability Rights via Geographic Information Science

Breaking the Divide: Setting Environmental Precedent in the Chicago River

Agglomeration: A long-run panel data approach

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