Walled ghettos are a well-known example of physical segregation.90 Jewish people in Europe were made to live in separate, walled areas, as were Arab and European traders in China.
Keeping people behind walls and trapping them in and environment where it is impossible for them to grow is unfair. They should be able to integrate with other people so that there will be fair opportunities. Excluding a group doesn't help the situations they are in.
Moses’s biographer suggests that his decision to favor upper- and middle-class white people who owned cars at the expense of the poor and African-Americans was due to his “social-class bias and racial prejudice.”
Certain environments are created and set up certain ways to where it is only geared towards certain groups of people only. Those who are not intended to live in these areas will eventually be excluded . He wanted to exclude people in a way that not every one would realize.
These architectural decisions create architectural constraints: features of the built environment that function to control human behavior or hinder access—the embodiment of architectural exclusion.
In certain environments larger houses are built and are eventually turned into gated communities. Since these houses are bigger and better they cost a lot more and while some people can afford it others can not. This is intended to exclude certain groups of people and those who have a lot less, hindering them access to cleaner and safer neighborhoods.
That Paris has large boulevards limits the ability of revolutionaries to protest. That the Constitutional Court in Germany is in Karlsruhe, while the capital is in Berlin, limits the influence of one branch of government over the other. These constraints function in a way that shapes behavior. In this way, they too regulate.50
The way Infrastructure is built and where it is placed can control the way people think and what their actions will be. It puts restraints on certain groups of people causing them to act in a way that was intended for them.
This design decision meant that many people of color and poor people, who most often relied on public transportation, lacked access to the lauded public park at Jones Beach.5
Who would've ever thought that the height of a bridge held that much significance. The height of the bridge keeps public transportation such as buses from passing underneath. Finding ways to keep Blacks from accessing certain environments is most definitely wrong and puts them at a disadvantage because it restricts them from many opportunities.
This design decision meant that many people of color and poor people, who most often relied on public transportation, lacked access to the lauded public park at Jones Beach.5
Who would've ever thought that the height of a bridge held that much significance. The height of the bridge keeps public transportation such as buses from passing underneath. Finding ways to keep Blacks from accessing certain environments is most definitely wrong and puts them at a disadvantage because it restricts them from many opportunities.