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Segregation as a global practice: General resources

Recommended resources on divided communities worldwide, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

Recommended image resources

Apartheid pictures and images, Getty Images

Goldblatt, David & Neville Dubow, South Africa: the structure of things then, Monacelli, DT1725.G65 1998

Jim Crow Museum of racist memorabilia, Ferris State University ("Using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice")

Unequal scenes (aerial photographs of divided cities by Johnny Miller, 2016)

Other resources

Leadership Conference on civil and human rights (“a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States.”)

Poverty & Race Research Action Council (promotes “a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues”)

Right to the city (“a national movement-building infrastructure for grassroots organizations addressing gentrification and urban displacement”)

Recommended for all architectural research

Specialized resources on related topics

Hutchison, Ray & Bruce D. Haynes, Ghetto: contemporary global issues and controversies, Westview Press, 2011 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Iceland, John & Rima Wilkes, Does socioeconomic status matter? Race, class, and residential segregation, Social Problems, May 2006, p. 248-273 (PDF via Jstor)

Préteceille, Edmond & Amy Jacobs, “Has ethno-racial segregation increased in the greater Paris metropolitan area? ” Revue Française De Sociologie, 2011, p. 31-62 (PDF via Jstor)

Ageel, Ghada (editor), Apartheid in Palestine : hard laws and harder experiences, University of Alberta Press, 2016 

Beall, Jo, et al., Uniting a divided city: governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg, Routledge, 2002 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Christopher, A. J., Atlas of changing South Africa, Routledge, 2000 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Harrison, Philip, et al., Planning and transformation: learning from the post-apartheid experience, Routledge, JQ1929.P64H37 2008

Murray, Noëleen, “Utopia’s others: architecture, apartheid and modernity in South Africa, 1960-2010,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Fall 2010, p. 30-31 (PDF via Jstor)

Murray, Noëleen, et al., Desire lines: space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city, Routledge, NA9053.S6D465 2007

Owen, Graham, “Forget Europe, forget America: architecture and apartheid,” Journal of Architectural Education, Spring 1989, p. 3-23 (PDF via Jstor)

Ashcroft, Bill, et al., Post-colonial studies reader, Routledge, 1994 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Chattopadhyay, Swati, “Blurring boundaries: the limits of ‘White Town’ in colonial Calcutta,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2000, p. 154-179 (PDF via Jstor)

Kuroishi, Izumi & Matthew Carmona, Design and the built environment: constructing the colonized land, Routledge, 2014 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Nightingale, Carl H., “Before race mattered: geographies of the color line in early colonial Madras and New York,” The American Historical Review, #1, 2008, p. 48-71  (PDF via Oxford Journals)

DesegregationOrganization of American Historians Magazine of History, v. 15, #2, Winter 2001 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Gerőházi, Éva, et al., Desegregation Plans and Social Rehabilitation Programs as Tools to Counteract Socio-Spatial Segregation in BudapestLincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021 (PDF via JSTOR) 

Jackson, John P., Social scientists for social justice: making the case against segregation, New York University Press, 2001 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Wild, Henry Mark, Street meeting: multi-ethnic neighborhoods in early twentieth-century Los Angeles, University of California Press, F869.L89A1 2005

Barlotta, Al, "Urban planning in the U.S. - Uncovering a legacy of racism," Foward Pinellas, August 13, 2020 (blog post)

"Housing segregation and redlining in America: a short history," Code Switch, NPR, April 11, 2018, via YouTube (6:36 minutes)

Nightingale, Carl Husemoller, Segregation: a global history of divided cities, The University of Chicago Press, HD7288.75.N54 2012

Rast, Joel, The origins of the dual city : housing, race, and redevelopment in twentieth-century Chicago, University of Chicago Press, HD7304.C4 R37 2019

Rothstein, Richard, The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, Liveright, E185.61 .R8185 2017

Scholar, Richard (Editor), Divided cities: the Oxford Amnesty lectures 2003, Oxford University Press, HT155.D58 2006 (ebook also available via Ebook Central)

Shirlow, Peter & Brendan Murtagh, Belfast: segregation, violence and the city, Pluto Press, 2006 (ebook via Ebook Central)

Sorkin, Michael, The next Jerusalem: sharing the divided city, Monacelli Press, DS109.15.N49 2002

Brown-Saracino, Japonica, The gentrification debates, Routledge, HT170.G454 2010

Freeman, Lance & Frank Braconi, “Gentrification and displacement,” Journal of the American Planning Association. Winter 2004, p. 39-52 

"Gentrification explained," Urban Displacement Project, November 19, 2017, via YouTube

Glaesser, Edward L., et al., Urban inequality, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008 (PDF via NBER)

Hughes, James K. & Kenneth D. Bleakly, Urban homesteading, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, HD7293.H83 1975

Lees, Loretta, et al., The gentrification reader, Routledge, HT170.G465 2010

Redlining and gentrification, explores redlining, gentrification, and exclusion across California's Bay Area (San Francisco, East Bay, and San Jose). Created by the Urban Displacement Project, University of California Berkeley. See also:

Zielebach, Sean, The Art of revitalization, Routledge, 2000 (ebook via Ebook Central)

D. F. M., “The Constitutionality of segregation ordinances,” Michigan Law Review, #3, 1914, p. 215-217 (PDF via Jstor)

Mandel, Jennifer, The coveted Westside : how the Black homeowners' rights movement shaped modern Los Angeles, University of Nevada Press, HD7288.76.U52 M355 2022

Rothstein, Richard, The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, Liveright, E185.61 .R8185 2017

Unconstitutionality of segregation ordinances,” The Yale Law Journal, #3, 1918, p. 393-397 (PDF via Jstor)

Weaver, Robert C., “Race restrictive housing covenants,” The Journal of Land & Public Utility Economics, #3, 1944, p. 183-193 (PDF via Jstor)

Austen, Ben, High-risers: Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Harper, HD7288.78.U52 C425 2018

Brown, Marisa Angell, “Integration by Design: Bertrand Goldberg, Stanley Tigerman, and Public Housing Architecture in Postwar Chicago,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.76, #2, 2017, p.218–38 (PDF via JSTOR)

Goetz, Edward, New Deal ruins: race, economic justice, and public housing, Cornell University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Laslett, John H. M., "The defeat of public housing and the triumph of corporate modernism, 1950-1953," in Shameful victory: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the hidden history of Chavez Ravine, University of Arizona Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Vale, Lawrence, From the Puritans to the projects: public housing and public neighbors, Harvard University Press, HD7288.78 .U52 M48 2000

Blakely, Edward J. & Mary Gail Snyder, Fortress America: gated communities in the United States, Brookings Institution Press, HT169.59.U6B53 1997

Dwyer, Rachel E., “Poverty, prosperity, and place: the shape of class segregation in the age of extremes,” Social Problems, #1, 2010, p. 114-137 (PDF via Jstor)

Fry, Richard & Paul Taylor, "The Rise of Residential Segregation by Income," Pew Research Center, August 1, 2012

Massey, Douglas S., et al., “The Changing bases of segregation in the United States,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2009, p. 74-90 (PDF via Jstor)

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  • These guides are intended to provide initial orientation, and suggest a variety of different lines of investigation—not take the place of individual research.
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  • Resources on Los Angeles and Southern California are stressed.
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