American urban policy led to the dispersal and division of people in metropolitan areas, resulting in a segregated society and…
A)hyperurbanization in American cities similar to that in less developed societies.
B)increasing levels of urban crime during the 1990s.
C)diminishing the number of places for people of different classes and racial groups to encounter each other.
D)a reversal of suburbanization because people realized that this was leading to increasing fragmentation of groups in American society.

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American urban policy, including practices such as redlining and discriminatory zoning, led to the physical separation of different racial and socioeconomic groups. This resulted in fewer opportunities for people of different backgrounds to interact and created increasingly segregated neighborhoods.

American Urban Policy Led to the Dispersal and Division of People