The rules of residential segregation: US housing taxonomies and their precedents

Sonia Hirt

Planning Perspectives, 2015, vol. 30, issue 3, 367-395

Abstract: This paper reviews how urban regulations in history have been used to relegate populations to different parts of the city and its environs. Its main purpose is to place the twentieth-century US zoning experience in historic and international contexts. To this end, based mostly on secondary sources, the paper first surveys a selection of major civilizations in history and the regulations they invented in order to keep populations apart. Then, based on primary sources, it discusses the emergence of three methods of residential segregation through zoning which took root in the early twentieth-century USA. The three methods are: segregating people by race, segregating them by different land-area standards, and segregating them based on both land-area standards and a taxonomy of single- versus multi-family housing.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2014.985602

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