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April 28, 2008

"solved" by physical isolation and segregation

"[After World War II] virtually every American problem, real, imagined, or socio-psychopathic, was 'solved' by physical isolation and segregation; from race relationships, to illness, to illegal behavior, to undesired contact with persons of lower income, spatial segregation was the answer -- an answer embodied in and enforced by local zoning ordinances."

-- Laurence Gerckens, "American Zoning & the Physical Isolation of Uses" (in Planning Commissioners Journal #15)

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