"An impressive exercise in urban forensics engaging infrastructure as social engineering. Case studies from the United States and Northern Ireland provide comparative analyses of strategies for urban segregation by law and by design. Cunningham provides an invaluable resource for understanding and ameliorating legacies of spatial injustice in our cities." - Richard Plunz, Professor Emeritus, Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York City
For all those students and practitioners in urbanism, particularly those addressing the problems of deeply divided cities, where contested issues of identity and inequality overlap, this is a must-read book. It brings novel insight to the perennial problem of how you reconcile community cohesion and social inclusion by remaking urban space for connectedness over segregation. Perceptively, the book acknowledges the historic injustices of race, religion and class that have imprinted themselves in layers of spatial discrimination and containment that continue to obstruct opportunity for the most marginalised. In a very readable style, and with an impressive set of references, the book challenges us to respect this legacy and all its complexity. - Frank Gaffikin, Emeritus Professor, Queens University Belfast.
"This is a timely book bringing important issues related to discrimination, exclusion and transformation in urban spaces to the fore, namely the relationship of the built environment to the management and experience of conflict and inequality. Grounded in deep history of place and time Cunningham provides compelling, insightful and novel insights to these issues." - Prof Fionnuala Nķ Aolįin KC (Hons), Regents Professor, University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law, The Queens University of Belfast
