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Multidisciplinary perspectives on segregation in the United States and other developed countries.
Desegregating the City takes a global, multidisciplinary look at segregation and the strengths and weaknesses of different antisegregation strategies in the United States and other developed countries. In contrast to previous works focusing exclusively on racial ghettos (products of coercion), this book also discusses ethnic enclaves (products of choice) in cities like Belfast, Toronto, Amsterdam, and New York.
Since 9/11 the ghetto-enclave distinction has become blurred as crime and disorder have emanated from both European immigrant ethnic enclaves and America's ghettos. The contributors offer a variety of tools for addressing the problems of racial and income segregation, including school integration, area-based "fair share" housing requirements, place-based mixed-income housing development, and expanded demand-side residential subsidy options such as housing vouchers. By exploring these alternatives and their consequences, Desegregating the City provides the basis for a combination of flexible antisegregation strategies.
"…the book has significant and impressive breadth." — H-Net Reviews (H-Urban)
"The contributors present a wide variety of useful and thought-provoking research, theory, case material, and policy recommendations." — Leonard F. Heumann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Defining Segregation and Its Consequences
1. Enclaves Yes, Ghettos No: Segregation and the State
PETER MARCUSE
2. The Ghetto and the Ethnic Enclave
CERI PEACH
3. Ethnic Segregation in a Multicultural City
MOHAMMAD A. QADEER
4. Urban Ethnic Segregation and the Scenarios Spectrum
FREDERICK W. BOAL
5. Social Capital and Segregation in the United States
XAVIER DE SOUZA BRIGGS
6. Causes and Consequences of Rapid Urban Spatial Segregation: The New Towns of Tegucigalpa
GLENN PEARCE-OROZ
Part II: Housing Markets, Public Policies and Land Use
7. Experiencing Residential Segregation: A Contemporary Study of Washington, D.C.
GREGORY D. SQUIRES, SAMANTHA FRIEDMAN, AND CATHERINE E. SAIDAT
8. Inequality, Segregation and Housing Markets: The U.S. Case
N. ARIEL ESPINO
9. An Economic View of the Causes as Well as the Costs and Some of the Benefits of Urban Spatial Segregation
ROBERT W. WASSMER
10. Does Density Exacerbate Income Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980–1990
ROLF PENDALL
11. Sprawl and Segregation: Another Side of the Los Angeles Debate
TRIDIB BANERJEE AND NIRAJ VERMA
12. Housing Subsidies and Urban Segregation: A Reflection on the Case of South Africa
MARIE HUCHZERMEYER
13. Suburbs and Segregation in South African Cities: A Challenge for Metropolitan Governance in the Early Twenty-First Century
ALAN MABIN
Conclusion: Desegregating the City
Bibliography
Contributors