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The Architecture of Segregation

There is a street that divides a city like a scar. On one side, the shadows fall soft, gentle against freshly painted walls. On the other, the sunlight hits cracked concrete, broken glass, forgotten corners. The fence is invisible, but the boundary is sharp, carved into the very bones of the place. Cities are not neutral vessels. They are repositories of history, of choices made quietly but decisively. The architecture we walk through is not just shelter—it is a map of power, a ledger of exclusion. In zoning laws and highways that cleave neighborhoods in half, in the silent distance between a bus stop and a playground, the city declares who belongs and who is barred. This segregation is a wound that runs deep beneath the surface. It fractures the soul of the city and the souls within it. Proximity becomes illusion—two children playing blocks apart, separated by the weight of forgotten promises. A geography of loneliness, where hope is fenced in, gated, kept at bay. The city’s archit...