The history of zoning is very much about keeping certain people out of the "nice" neighborhoods after Buchanan v. Warley declared explicitly racial zoning to be

The history of zoning is very much about keeping certain people out of the "nice" neighborhoods after Buchanan v. Warley declared explicitly racial zoning to be unconstitutional. This book has a concise and very readable history of zoning in the US: https://islandpress.org/books/arbitrary-lines https://islandpress.org/books/arbitrary-lines https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479878/zoned-in-the-usa/ https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479878/zone... has a deeper dive into the history of zoning here compared with other countries.