Spatial segregation operates at fine grain, not just neighborhoods and suburbs

Evidence

In discussing the spatial segregation of the modern city, then, I am not merely making reference to such well-known phenomena as homogeneous neighborhoods or suburbs. I am referring more importantly to the designation of certain smaller locales (a bar, for example) as being appropriate for certain persons and activities; to the designation of different appropriate activities and persons at different times in the same locale (during the New Orleans’ Mardi Gras, or New Year’s Eve, or Halloween or in the morning rather than evening). I am referring also to the fact that within any given space-say a block-long street-a multiplicity of activities and persons designated as appropriate may exist side by side; that is, who and what are okay here may not be the same as who and what are appropriate next door. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 356

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the book’s core concept of spatial segregation by distinguishing fine-grained micro-segregation from the coarse-grained neighborhoods/suburbs reading.
• XREF: connects to: Urban space mediates how diversity and racialization play out differently — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 67; Municipal boundary lines perpetuate racial and class segregation — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1349