Rebuilt housing architecture fixed and made permanent a codified social hierarchy

Evidence

Such a method of order offered the possibility of a remarkable standardisation, between houses, between families and between villages. As in the army, such uniformity would be a hallmark of the new order. But as with the invention of a system of military rank, the new methods of spatial order also worked by producing and codifying a visible hierarchy. The distinction was to be made, as was mentioned, between four different ranks of housing. Besides the model house for the ordinary peasant, there were dwellings for the well-to-do, for the rich, and for foreigners. The distribution of families according to these four categories would generate, or at least enfix and make certain, these distinctions among them, tending both to fix and make legible a determined social hierarchy. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 164 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial architecture helped fabricate the lived spaces that shape residents’ dispositions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1846; Federal aid conditioned local housing codes on workable anti-slum programs — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 227; SDS’s defining innovation was building movement structures that prefigured the desired society — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 82 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Standardized housing plans simultaneously codified visible social hierarchies among villagers #corroborates (0.95) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 164