Chapter 1
Spatial Legislation
Various types of legislation affect how we live in the city.
Looking at urban law making and policy I have identified
some key city-shaping tools - particularly Byelaws (local
laws made by a local council) and Public General Acts.
The public space protection order (PSPO) was created
under the Anti-social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act
2014. It gives local authorities to restrict certain behaviours
in public space within a notional red-lined zone. These may
be civic freedoms that are otherwise not punishable by the
law.
The PSPO displaces the location of so-called anti social acts
from the individual to a geographical zone. This political
spatialisation of a social condition has physical implications
on both the present experience of the city, particularly for
the migrant groups it targets and on future planning of its
built fabric and infrastructural networks which impacts a
wider public.