Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities

ISBN-13: 9781108454988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 282 str.

Jessica Trounstine

Opis

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

Recenzje

'Trounstine fills an enormous hole in our understanding of how segregation evolved in the United States.' J. Eric Oliver, University of Chicago

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of segregation by design; 3. Protecting investments: segregation and the development of the metropolis; 4. Engineering enclaves: how local governments produce segregation; 5. Living on the wrong side of the tracks: inequality in public goods provision, 1900–1940; 6. Cracks in the foundation: losing control over protected neighborhoods; 7. Segregation's negative consequences; 8. Locking in segregation through suburban control; 9. The polarized nation that segregation built; 10. Concluding thoughts and new designs; References; Index.