Zoning separates residence from necessarily-integrated workplaces

Evidence

Zoning, at least in the United States, has been one of the more interesting instruments of segregation. It has had a major responsibility in banning mixed land use, that is, in separating place of residence from place of work. Since work places tend necessarily to be integrated, the banning of mixed land use must be considered a separatist stroke of genius (see Schnore, 1967; Toll, 1969). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 401

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Direct evidence for the reader’s core project: urban order is built on spatial categorizing of persons, complementing Lofland’s stranger-categorization theme from earlier chapters and the Simmel blasé-attitude frame.
• SEED: Angle: zoning as institutionalized social-separation machinery — how ‘mixed-use’ bans quietly implement class and race sorting that informal norms once did.

Related

• Banning mixed land use is a segregating instrument of zoning (similarity 0.92)
• Commercial segregation, like residential segregation, was engineered through zoning (similarity 0.82)
• Urban spatial expansion enabled large-scale segregation of people and activities. (similarity 0.81)
• Urban commercial class segregation is deliberately engineered, not accidental. (similarity 0.81)
• Class-based neighborhood segregation predates the modern city (similarity 0.79)
• Sociology naturalized spatial segregation instead of recognizing it as historically contingent. (similarity 0.79)