The Structure of this Book

Following this brief introduction, chapter one philosophically anchors the book on the spatial turn in law and a legal turn in spatial planning - while gesturing towards the decolonial turn in urban law. The chapter demonstrates how the concept of the lawscape allows for a more concerted analysis of how the pillars of law and planning are produced through, and infused by, various ideological and power dynamics across space and time, thus often producing ideology-driven social spaces.