By merging three different historical examples, this article shows that legal mentality influences the management of similar public goods, the composition of institutional change in the urban sphere and finally the character of legal regulations best fitted in a given circumstances for arriving at desired outcome. The authors proved that the inclinations for ex ante and ex post models are dependent on the concept of public administration and most particularly of administrative law. In a way, in the mixed public administration presented in the Roman law example, where both centralized and polycentric governance were applied, much depends on the narrative and values which accompany the institutional change in urban settings.
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