The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics

by Alex Schafran

Book Overview

How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core? This is the story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520286456
• ISBN13: 9780520286450
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"