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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by varelse on Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:30PM (#11511174)
One problem is that one need not be particularly racist for segregation to occur spontaneously:

http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...

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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build by llamataboot on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:42PM (#11511498)
Just because something could exist, doesn't mean it is what is happening though. I think all complex systems modeling has things to teach us, and I've looked a lot at Schelling and other agent-based models, but arguably they don't hold up to empirical evidence. http://www.nyudri.org/research-index/2009/empirics
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