Commercial segregation, like residential segregation, was engineered through zoning

Evidence

Commercial segregation along class lines, of course, didn’t just happen, anymore than residential segregation just happened. It too is the result of multitudinous forces, one of the more important of which, again, was zoning. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 407

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• ADDENDUM: Complements the article on trees/infrastructure by showing how urban public space itself is deliberately engineered infrastructure, this time through zoning rather than plantings.

Related

• Urban commercial class segregation is deliberately engineered, not accidental. (similarity 0.91)
• Zoning separates residence from necessarily-integrated workplaces (similarity 0.82)
• Urban spatial expansion enabled large-scale segregation of people and activities. (similarity 0.78)