How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies objects ideas and practices that constitute the urban? This book explores the relation between space law and control in the contemporary city â and particularly in the context of urban âmega eventsâ â through a combined geographical and normative analysis. Informed by the recent spatial affective and material âturnsâ in the humanities and social sciences Andrea Pavoni addresses this question by pursuing an innovative and trans-disciplinary approach capable of accounting for the emergence of order in urban space both at the conceptual and empirical levels. Two overarching objectives are pursued. First to account for the increasing convergence of logics techniques and technologies of law security and marketing into novel potentially oppressive spatial configurations. Second to envisage a consistent ethico-political strategy to counter this evolution by rethinking originally and in radically spatial terms the notion of justice. Forging a sophisticated and original analysis this book offers an analysis that will be of considerable interest to those working in critical urban geography critical legal studies critical event studies surveillance and control studies. . Language: English