From: Manning Thomas, June And Marsha Ritzdorf Eds., Christopher Silver. THE RACIAL ORIGINS OF ZONING IN AMERICAN CITIES (2012): n. pag. Web.

Forrest, Clyde. “The Racial Origins of Zoning: Southern Cities from 1910–40.” ResearchGate. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Feb. 2016.

 

Did you know that cities hired prominent planning  professionals to legally assemble segregated zoning plans? Christopher Silver and other scholars from the Thousand Oaks California team carefully examined the affects of racial zoning in the south (predominantly black communities).  The researchers acknowledge that racial zoning was a successful plan and effective for forcing blacks and other “undesirables” into a socket were social control and its mechanisms could be enforced. The author Christopher Silver conducted that the population of black communities increased tremendously due to land usage, building height, and racial zoning. The continuous evolution of black communities in the south has eventually lead to migration of southern blacks from east to the west. Nevertheless researchers also conducted that the experience in southern cities such as Atlanta today has proved that the architectural development has spatially separated the city into two worlds; one black and one white. Christopher Silver and other scholars are trying to point out the obliviousness of racial inequality through architectural exclusion.  The history of zoning affects and will continue to have an significant impact on the role of defining southern cities.