Mean cities: the dark side of urban citizenship

<p>Stadtluft macht frei, or city air makes you free, was a proverb in the Middle Ages. It referred to a legal principle according to which runaway serfs were to become free after living one year in a city. Today, many scholars suggest that urban citizenship still has powerful emancipatory effe...

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Main Authors: Enrico Gargiulo, Lorenzo Piccoli
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
Series:Verfassungsblog
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Online Access:https://verfassungsblog.de/mean-cities-the-dark-side-of-urban-citizenship/
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Summary:<p>Stadtluft macht frei, or city air makes you free, was a proverb in the Middle Ages. It referred to a legal principle according to which runaway serfs were to become free after living one year in a city. Today, many scholars suggest that urban citizenship still has powerful emancipatory effects. </p>
ISSN:2366-7044