SOURCE: A review of The Gold Coast and the Slum and The Ghetto, in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, November, 1929, pp. 486-87.

In the following essay, McKenzie reviews The Ghetto along with another study of urbanism and ethnicity, Harvey W. Zorbaugh's The Gold Coast and the Slum.

These two products from the University of Chicago [The Gold Coast and the Slum by Harvey W. Zorbaugh and The Ghetto by Wirth] are essentially studies of urban segregation. Zorbaugh approaches the subject from the standpoint of place. He analyzes the changing forms of human segregation within a specific region—the Near North Side of Chicago, an area a mile and a half long and a mile wide, in which live about ninety thousand people. Wirth, on the other hand, focuses his attention on the communal habits of a people, the Jews, and studies the ghetto in its...