Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment is an article published about the discrimination that the builder or builders enforced through the unique, stereotyping structure of the buildings, bridges, and neighborhoods possessed within these locations. This article analyzes the development pattern social structures have directly on society. Schindler targeted the government, lawmakers and judges for not taking the prejudice aspects of architectural design into consideration.

The different structures of the buildings characterizes the environment based off the particular surroundings in that specific Society. The structure of these buildings have been designed to keep a hierarchy system that differentiates the fortunate from the less fortunate. The infrastructure and exclusionary designs of an economy plays a vital role on how visitors and tourists view that location. Schindler studies have seek to raise awareness and arouse discussions about the role of architecture, planning in dividing people within and across communities.

Although the law address exclusionary practices such as racial and prejudice acts the exterior of these built designs; the aspects of a place, functions as a form of regulation. ” According to Schindler experiments have concluded that it constrains the behavior of those who interact with it, often without them even realizing it.” After long hours of analyzing and observing Schindler acknowledges that the external appearance of buildings embodies the discriminatory rules that governs the relations of individuals to each other and their society just as prejudice laws do.

Schindler uses MARTA which is one of Atlanta most significant form or transportation as an example to help create a illusion that could grab the readers attention. Schindler acknowledges the fact that a vast majority of  wealthy Caucasian people that are also residents of the metro Atlanta community has rebelled against the expansion of MARTA in their local neighborhood. This expansion of MARTA to suburban predominately white communities could give colored people the opportunity to wonder and find jobs in those areas which has it advantages as well disadvantages. This protest against Marta reflects older court cases in the pass such as the Memphis neighborhood collaboration of black and whites.

Even though law makers, judges, and federal appointees excluded discriminatory laws and actions Schindler feels that they enforced them through societal and urban development. Schindler analyzes the different architectural structures that expresses itself in a regulatory way that differentiates the population based off the builders perception of that race or culture. Schindler warned that the development of these architectural designs advocated for separation, inequality, and justice which in a way was more severe than the  prejudice laws itself. Schindler fear that as economic development or industrial growth increases the obliviousness of discriminatory regulations in architecture designs also increases. Schindler wrote this article not only to inform those who are being included but to rather emphasize her concerns about the discriminatory designs to those  who are excluded from architectural regulations so they could build non-regulatory designs in the future.