For the Greater Good of Whom?

Kevin Fox Gotham , Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 13-13.

and Kenneth Jackson , Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Gotham defines privatism as “an entrenched and deep-rooted belief in the supremacy of the private sector in nurturing societal development, with the public sector adopting a ‘hands-off’ (laissezfaire) strategy whose principle obligation is to encourage private profit”; Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, 10.

Ibid.

and Brian J. L. Berry and Quentin Gillard , The Changing Shape of Metropolitan America (Cambridge, Mass.; Ballinger, 1977), among others.

Gotham , Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, 26-26.

Sherry Lamb Schirmer , A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002), 2-3.

Ibid., 57.

Ibid., 23.

Ibid., 232-33.

Ibid., 120, 121.

Ibid., 121.

Eric Sandweiss , St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 3-3.

Ibid.

Ibid., 16.

Ibid.

Ibid., 18.

Ibid., 2.

Ibid., 2, 3, 13.

Ibid., 13.

Ibid., 3.

Ibid., 238.

Ibid., 8.

Ibid., 3, 7.