Self-organized segregation needs no central coordinating agency

Evidence

The model also makes clear that such an outcome does not require the intervention of a central, organizing agency (e.g., real-estate agents) in order for segregation to occur, but rather may emerge in a self-organized fashion from individual-level motives. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 824

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Segregation was deliberately engineered through planning policy, not emergent preference. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 21; Segregation can perpetuate itself silently with no active racist actor — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 343