Richard Rothstein

Bartholomew’s legacy demonstrates with particular clarity that planning is never truly neutral; value judgments are always embedded in engineers' objectives.

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.

More than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, the legacy of discrimination can still be seen in California’s poorest large city.

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

Though there are practical obstacles to school integration, it's not an unreachable ideal.

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.