Gist of reading:
Reading talks about how middle-class residents in suburbs mark social distinction and distance through physical boundaries, daily practices that regulated the behavior of service workers within community space

Reading also talks about emerging global suburbs, and how immigrants in these places are being discriminated despite being in close physical proximity and contact

Reading looks at the interdependencies between peoples and residential spaces of this divided economy, divisions that largely fall along the lines of class, racial-ethnic identity and to some extent migrant status bring questions to racial or class segregation/distinction

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Content:

Los Angeles: widely known as global city
Orange County, particularly, has become a suburban counterpart to the global city, a “global suburb” economies of service and support developed alongside transnational commerce
Orange country: still largely segregated by race and class

In Irvine’s landscape: Segregate the lower class with the middle to upper class by using high-priced housing and zoning regulations Lower class were typically Latinos who would do all the menial labour such as window washers, carpet cleaners.
Imagined the freeway as a connection to the world especially to the urban areas
SOCIAL DISTINCTION PRACTISED IN 3 ASPECTS:
A) Talk of Crime and Physical Defense
Often see the influx of Latino immigrants or Blacks as the cause of the problems these areas have experienced, this kind of assumption lends itself to anxieties about race more than economic difficulty or crime Becoming a global suburb has introduced urban ills into Orange County, where physical distance used to secure suburban communities Erosion occurring between urban and suburban communities is attributable to the dependence upon “ urban” minorities for service labor in Irvine
BUT:
Irvine has