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Segregation in cities 城市里的种族隔离 Living in black and white 黑白时代 How different races inhabit cities 不同的种族如何共居于城市 Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities. By Carl Nightingale. 《种族隔离：城市分裂的全球史》，卡尔南丁格尔著。 Carl Nightingale S history of segregation claims to be a detailed account of how cities were,for millennia, divided along racial lines. But it is really a history of how colonialism affectedthe construction, governance and policing of great urban areas. 卡尔南丁格尔的这本著作讲述了种族隔离的历史，并据称详细描绘了几千年来，城市是如何在种族界限中分裂的。但事实上，它也是一段有关殖民主义如何影响大城市的建设、政府管治和政策制定的真实历史。 For the past 500 years white Europeans have often used their economic and military powerto build and rebuild urban landscapes in order to grab the safest, healthiest and nicest partsfor themselves. Even in places where colonial rule is now a distant memory, many urbanenvironments cannot be understood without recalling their foundation as a fortified enclavefor Europeans bent on procuring commodities or opening markets. Calcutta was set up in 1690 by a member of Britain s East India Company, in defiance of the localMuslim overlord. It later vied with London as the biggest metropolis in the British empire. | 
