ABSTRACT
The neoliberal metropolis is an elaborate network of economically and racially segregated settlement spaces. This chapter focuses on the causal role of white-private spaces that maintains the symbiotic relationship between racial segregation, gentrification, and suburbanization. The spirit of racial zoning explains how elite whites shaped the composition of the neoliberal city, carving out spaces for commerce and residential spaces stratified by race and class. Suburbanization in the neoliberal era has further advanced the neo-liberal project of privatization. In sum, the history of suburbanization and white flight linked the white middle class with elite whites to facilitate the expansion of the neoliberal project. The growth of outer suburbia and gated communities and hypersegregation are the dominant spatial patterns in the neoliberal era. The logic of white-private-gentrification provides the cultural and material link that defines 21st-century urban development.
