What to Expect When You’re Expecting Civil Rights: Thoughts on Urban History, Production of Space, and Law
Abstract
This short presentation will focus upon my recent works on concentration camps for civilians of enemy origin in the two World Wars, and on a governmental housing project for munition workers in First World War London. These two subjects are mostly unrelated, but each of them represents in my study an attempt to use a spatial analysis of an urban crisis to enrich our historical understanding of the crisis itself. Along with presenting my current outcomes regarding the spatial history of the camps and the housing project I will add to the discussion some thoughts about the place of Law – and the expectations from the Law – in the interaction between people and space in times of crisis.
