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Segregation by design : local politics and inequality in American cities / Jessica Trounstine.
Author
Trounstine, Jessica
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 262 pages)
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Discrimination in housing
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United States
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Local government
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United States
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Race discrimination
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United States
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Segregation
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United States
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Summary note
Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2018).
Contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
Cherry hill and camden
Contributions to existing literature
Chapter summaries
A theory of segregation by design
The need for local government
The geography of inequality
Empirical expectations
Important caveats
Schools
The intersection of race and class
Data hurdles
Protecting investments: segregation and the development of the metropolis
The rise of urban america
City spending data
Explaining and measuring segregation
Suburbanization 2013
another form of segregation
Engineering enclaves: how local governments produce segregation
Understanding the adoption of zoning
Zoning generates segregation
Living on the wrong side of the tracks: inequality in public goods provision, 1900-2013;1940
Jim crow and public goods inequalities
Inequalities generated through residential segregation
Cracks in the foundation: losing control over protected neighborhoods
Urban renewal and segregation
Racially contested mayoral elections
Federal desegregation of schools and increased residential segregation
Conclusion
Segregation-2019;s negative consequences
How segregation creates polarized politics
Segregation and political polarization
Diversity and segregation in the aggregate
Evidence of causality
Segregation and sewer overflows
Locking in segregation through suburban control
Understanding the link between segregation and suburbanization
Measuring suburbanization, a new approach
Schools, land use regulation, and suburban segregation
Suburban inequality
The polarized nation that segregation built
The effect of context
Linking segregation and conservatism
Empirical evidence
Correlates of segregation
Historical persistence of segregated neighborhoods
Individual level conservatism
Prejudice and policy
Concluding thoughts and new designs
Looking ahead
Policy solutions
References.
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Cambridge University Press. Political science.
ISBN
9781108555722 (ebook)
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Segregation by design : local politics and inequality in American cities / Jessica Trounstine (University of California, Merced).
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