In this Book
- The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core?
This is the story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation between middle class white environmentalists and communities of color. As Alex Schafran shows, the responsibility for this newly segregated geography lies in institutions from across the region, state, and political spectrum, even as the Bay Area has never managed to build common purpose around the making and remaking of its communities, cities, and towns. Schafran closes the book by presenting paths toward a new politics of planning and development that weave scattered fragments into a more equitable and functional whole.
This is the story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation between middle class white environmentalists and communities of color. As Alex Schafran shows, the responsibility for this newly segregated geography lies in institutions from across the region, state, and political spectrum, even as the Bay Area has never managed to build common purpose around the making and remaking of its communities, cities, and towns. Schafran closes the book by presenting paths toward a new politics of planning and development that weave scattered fragments into a more equitable and functional whole.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Preface: The Personal and the Political
- pp. xv-xxii
- 2 • The Postindustrial Garden
- pp. 54-84
- 3 • The Dougherty Valley Dilemma
- pp. 85-116
- 7 • The Regionalist Dream
- pp. 210-233
- 8 • The Unrealized Coalition
- pp. 234-253
- References
- pp. 305-338
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520961678
Related ISBN(s)
9780520286443, 9780520286450
MARC Record
OCLC
1039188034
Pages
376
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No