How the Suburbs Were Segregated : Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 / Paige Glotzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glotzer, Paige, Author.

Series:

Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in housing--Maryland--Baltimore--History--20th century.

Discrimination in housing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. The mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were not simply the inevitable result of popular and elite prejudice, she reveals, but the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.Glotzer charts how the real estate industry shaped residential segregation, from the emergence of large-scale suburban development in the 1890s to the postwar housing boom. Focusing on the Roland Park Company as it developed Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, she follows the money that financed early segregated suburbs, including the role of transnational capital, mostly British, in the U.S. housing market. She also scrutinizes the business practices of real estate developers, from vetting homebuyers to negotiating with municipal governments for services. She examines how they sold the idea of the suburbs to consumers and analyzes their influence in shaping local and federal housing policies. Glotzer then details how Baltimore’s experience informed the creation of a national real estate industry with professional organizations that lobbied for planned segregated suburbs. How the Suburbs Were Segregated sheds new light on the power of real estate developers in shaping the origins and mechanisms of a housing market in which racial exclusion and profit are still inextricably intertwined.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. FLOWS

2. INFRASTRUCTURE

3. BOUND ARIES

4. STANDARDS

5. POLICIES

6. ADAPTATIONS

CONCLUSION

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

0-231-54249-6

OCLC:

1130322298