Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities

Jessica Trounstine is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, Merced. She is the author of Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers (2008), which won the American Political Science Association's (APSA) Prize for Best Book on Urban Politics. Trounstine served as President of the Urban and Local Politics Section of APSA from 2014-2015. Her research examines subnational politics and the process and quality of representation.

1. Introduction; 2. A theory of segregation by design; 3. Protecting investments: segregation and the development of the metropolis; 4. Engineering enclaves: how local governments produce segregation; 5. Living on the wrong side of the tracks: inequality in public goods provision, 1900-1940; 6. Cracks in the foundation: losing control over protected neighborhoods; 7. Segregation's negative consequences; 8. Locking in segregation through suburban control; 9. The polarized nation that segregation built; 10. Concluding thoughts and new designs; References; Index.