over time communities can become segregated based on various prejudices. 1. Break the problem down into one dimension; a street initially populated with equal probability either black ‘B’, white ‘W’ or empty ‘ ‘ houses. 2. We then allow the system to evolve by randomly selecting houses and applying a simple condition: If the house is surrounded on both sides by a house different to itself, it will decide to move to an empty location in the street where this condition is not satisfied. In the unlikely event that a suitable location cannot be found after a designated number of attempts, the house will leave the street.