On the Materiality of Law: Spatial and Legal Appropriations of the Lagos Set-Back

This paper provides an historical account of the governmental ambitions and unintended side-effects of a specific form of urban regulation in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. A counter-intuitive parable of "corruption", it describes the perversion of this law's original rationale, as it is...

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Published in:Architectural theory review 2015-05, Vol.20 (2), p.247-265
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