SAN JOSE AND THE ENTRENCHMENT OF SPATIAL INEQUALITY:
On Land, Zoning, Wealth, and the Geography We Inherit ___Thursday (08/20/2026): St. Worships & Gospel Demos with Silicon Valley Neighbors in San Jose
San José is often presented as a city of the future. It stands at the heart of Silicon Valley, surrounded by industries that promise to overcome limits once thought permanent. Semiconductor engineering, software, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and venture capital have helped make the region synonymous with innovation.
Yet beneath this geography of invention lies another geography—one considerably older and more difficult to disrupt.
It is the geography of spatial inequality.
This geography is visible not simply in differences between rich and poor, but in where those differences have been allowed to settle: in housing patterns, zoning rules, transportation networks, environmental burdens, school opportunities, property ownership, neighborhood investment, and access to the extraordinary wealth generated by the valley.
San José therefore presents a striking contradiction:
A region extraordinarily skilled at disrupting technology can remain remarkably resistant to disrupting inherited geography.
The challenge before the city is not merely to build more. It is to understand how yesterday's boundaries became today's advantages and disadvantages—and then to build differently.
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