In this article, Squires and Kubrin argue that location, race, and privilege interact and combine to play an important role in opportunity unequal rights available to different citizens. in metropolitan areas across the United States. They first explain the existence of “bad” neighborhoods in these metropolitan areas and attempt to describe their evolution over time. They discuss the role that location played in this. For example, they discuss urban sprawl, which they define as "a development pattern associated with outward expansion, low-density residential and commercial development, fragmentation of planning…, self-dependent transportation and segregated land use patterns” (48). They explain how urban sprawl has negatively impacted inner-city neighborhoods. Additionally, the authors discuss the impact of race on the formation of unequal life opportunities. Racial minorities do not have access to the same opportunities as white people in the United States today. Although it has improved in recent years, the United States remains a highly segregated country. This segregation, which is both a cause and a consequence of urban sprawl, is an example of how place and race interact in the formation of bad neighborhoods and inequality of opportunity. Finally, the authors define how privilege affects inequality. Living in an area of ​​high concentration of poverty as well as the social status of the family, being born into wealth or extreme poverty, have a significant effect on the opportunities a person will have in life. In addition to describing the factors that come into play in the development of inequality of opportunity in urban areas, the authors list some of the costs of living in a bad neighborhood. These “concentration effects,” as they call them, include access to health care and financial services. ...... middle of article ...... policies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Hope VI program. Overall, I found the article to be very compelling. Because I lived my entire life before coming to college in a very small Midwestern town, Memphis was a real change for me. I learned a lot about poverty and its geographic and racial dimensions just by being in Memphis. Overall, the arguments made in the article did not surprise me. However, some of the large statistical differences between, say, blacks and whites as well as urban and suburban residents surprised me. I had no idea how big the problem of inequality of opportunity was in metropolitan areas. The article made me want to learn more about the problem of inequality of opportunity based on location, race, and privilege and what I can do to help solve and bring attention to this problem..