[lbo-talk] Urban wealth/ethnic stratification

[tully]

On Sunday 27 January 2008, Chris Doss wrote:
>However it has been rapidly and obviously
>developing, with the center and western parts of the
>city being areas for the upper and middle classes and
>the east and southeast being working-class areas with
>a lots of immigrants (both from other areas of Russia
>and from other countries). It's very noticeable. I
>used to live in southeast Moscow, now live downtown,
>and believe me the difference is stark.

I've wondered why the cities I'm familiar with here on the US 
east coast have the elite neighborhoods in the west and north 
and the working class in the south and east.  When no ideas to 
explain it came to mind, I wrote it off to coincidence.  But now 
you are making me wonder again...  I see it here in DC, 
Baltimore, Greensboro, Burlington, NC.  Does this happen in 
other cities?  If so, I wonder why?  

--tully