The law of the street corner -- The legal regulation of taste: annoying noises, unkempt yards, and the "quality and tranquility of life" -- City bureaucrats and village elders: the dysfunctional dance of local governance -- Law without rights: zoning, poverty, and the normative family home -- "Putting diversity on the menu": the municipal corporation and the micromanagement of street life -- Driving a taxi: city fathers' myth of immigrant self-employment -- From local to global and back again: mosques and the politics of local planning -- The death of planning and the challenges of diversity: concluding reflections.