High-minded urbanism historically coexists with and even produces racial exclusion.

Evidence

Periclean Athens promoted an enlightenment polis yet simultaneously subsumed slavery. An architecturally rooted urbanism can at times produce streets and neighborhoods purged of racial impurity (Lokko, 2000). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2280

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the author’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ essay’s interest in how built environments encode social ideology; also connects to their piece on how ‘civilized’ projects carry hidden exclusions.