Overview
- Includes conversations and essays with members of the community in St. Louis, USA
- Include photographs to visually document the ways segregation has shaped people’s lives in American cities
- Analyzes segregation through the lens of different topics such as causes, consequences, mitigation, religion, among others, and offers a transdisciplinary perspective
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book discusses racial segregation in American cities. Using St. Louis as a point of departure, it examines the causes and consequences of residential segregation, and proposes potential mitigation strategies. While an introduction, timeline and historical overview frame the subject, nine topic-specific conversations – between invited academics, policy makers and urban professionals – provide the main structure. Each of these conversations is contextualized by a photograph, an editors’ note and an essay written by a respected current or former St. Louisan. The essayists respond to the conversations by speaking to the impacts of segregation and by suggesting innovative policy and design tactics from their professional or academic perspective. The purpose of the book, therefore, is not to provide original research on residential segregation, but rather to offer a unique collection of insightful, transdisciplinary reflections on the experience of segregation in America and how it might be addressed.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Segregation by Design
Book Subtitle: Conversations and Calls for Action in St. Louis
Editors: Catalina Freixas, Mark Abbott
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72956-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72955-8Published: 04 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72956-5Published: 24 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LIII, 621
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public Policy, Development and Social Change