Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran

Alex Schafran & Darian Razdar — 2019-05-14T05:00:00Z

Darian Razdar interviews Alex Schafran about his new book Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics. They discuss a new form of segregation called “resegregation” and the roots of this manifestation of unequal geography that impacts poor and racial-minority residents in Northern California's peripheral cities.
Over half a century since the Civil Rights Era, cities and urban regions in the United States remain divided and rife with inequality. Alex Schafran's new

- Interviews / segregation, resegregation, housing, race, social class, inequalities, California, Bay Area, Northern California

Rendering a Redeveloped France

Alex Schafran & Giorgia Aiello & Theresa Enright & Yohann Le Moigne — 2017-06-07T06:00:00Z

As urban redevelopment projects remake the Greater Paris region, it is impossible to separate an avalanche of new investment from long histories of both multiculturalism and race-based stigmatization. But these are histories that the economic and political authors of the new Paris appear to want to erase. This essay's four authors deconstruct the renderings on billboards created to represent newly renovated banlieues, reflecting on why France's imagined future is unrepresentative of the nation's

- From the Field / France, Île-de-France, Grand Paris, Paris, suburbs, Bordeaux, Greater Paris, banlieue rouge, race, computer-aided images, multiculturalism, race and space, metropolitan restructuring, banlieue

Metropolitics

Reinventing Segregation in Northern California: An Interview with Alex Schafran

Rendering a Redeveloped France