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 - 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, 1900-1940
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'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
Conclusion
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.