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Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volume 16, 2020

Constitutions and the Metropolis

Abstract

Extensive urbanization and the consequent rise of megacities are among the most significant demographic phenomena of our time. Our constitutional institutions and constitutional imagination, however, have not even begun to catch up with the new reality. In this article, I address four dimensions of the great constitutional silence concerning the metropolis: () the tremendous interest in cities throughout much of the social sciences, as contrasted with the meager attention to the subject in constitutional theory and practice; () the right to the city in theory and practice; () a brief account of what national constitutions actually say about cities, and more significantly what they do not; and () the dominant statist stance embedded in national constitutional orders, in particular as it addresses the sovereignty and spatial governance of the polity, as a main explanatory factor for the lack of vibrant constitutional discourse concerning urbanization in general and the metropolis in particular.

Keyword(s): constitutional law, federalism, megacities, multilevel governance, state theory, urbanization
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