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Cities continue to experience high levels of residential segregation based on discriminatory real estate practices, zoning ordinances, and mortgage structures (Low 2009). Residents of middle-class and upper middle-class neighborhoods often cordon themselves off as a class by building fences, cutting off relationships with neighbors, and moving out in response to problems and conflicts. At the same time, governments have expanded their…

The core idea of Davis’s argument can be summarized in this statement: The distortion of conceptual shared space is followed by the destruction of architectural and physical public space. Davis narrates how the public's conceptualization of space is harshly invaded…