Public Property, Law and Society: Owning, Belonging, Connecting in the Public Realm

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John Page

Public Property, Law and Society

Owning, Belonging, Connecting in the Public Realm

John Page

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Routledge
30 December 2020

Conveyancing law; Social law; Human geography

This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property may be developed.

In property law terms, the public realm is lost to plain view. Despite the vast acreage of public lands, or the extensive tracts of private lands over which public rights subsist, there is little commensurate scholarly discussion of the ideas, theories, practices, and laws of public property. This is no accident. Public property has been marginalized and pushed to the periphery for centuries, a consequence of the dominant discourse of private property, and its enclosing, encroaching tendencies. This book explores the rich diversity of the public estate, of what the public realm means for us, the general public, canvassing what we may ‘own’, where we may ‘belong’, or not, and how we may ‘connect’ through a shared use and enjoyment of public place and space. To better understand public property is to better value its critical public-wealth. Whether overlooked, over-used, or under threat of imminent loss, this book maintains that our loved (and not so loved) public spaces are essential components of our diverse, functioning, and optimistically livable human geographies. As such, they demand legal protection.

This important and original book will be of considerable interest to scholars and others with interests in property and land law, socio-legal studies, legal geography and urban studies.

By: John Page
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9780367691004
ISBN 10: 0367691000
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 30 December 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Page is a Professor of Law at the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, Australia.