Beverly Hills prefers empty purity over lived Iranian homes

Evidence

When given the option between an architecturally pure but abandoned property and an impure one in which real live Iranians cook, eat, argue, and play, affluent, majority-white neighborhoods like Beverly Hills seem to have made their preference clear. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 158

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Echoes the ‘Trees as Infrastructure’ piece’s theme that built environments encode social values — here the preference for dead, pure property over living, impure community.