Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets / Edition 1

by Manuel B. Aalbers

Overview

Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes.

• Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries - the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands
• Presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice of redlining
• Connects the literature on social exclusion and financial exclusion

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405196581
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/25/2011
Series:	IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series , #29
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Manuel B. Aalbers is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (2009), and has published extensively on redlining, gentrification, the privatization of social housing, financialization, and the Anglophone hegemony in academic writing.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

Series Editors' Preface ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I The Exclusion, Urban, and Market Lenses 11

1 Social and Financial Exclusion 13

2 A Socio-Spatial Approach 35

3 Markets, Institutions, Risk, Credit Scoring 53

Part II Redlining Research in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands 77

4 The United States: One Century of Redlining 79

5 Italy: Capital Switching in Milan 103

6 The Netherlands: Colored Maps 124

Photo Essay The Tarwewijk, Rotterdam 166

Part III Conclusions 179

7 The Globalization of Redlining? 181

References 199

Index 222

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"An important book that fills the empirical and theoretical gaps in the literature on the sociology and geography of mortgage markets. The book is a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative exploration of the historical trajectory of urban disinvestment (redlining) and social exclusion that compares the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. This book should be read by anyone with an interest in housing finance systems, real estate, comparative metropolitan development, and financial globalization."
—Kevin Fox Gotham, Tulane University, USA

‘The most detailed, exhaustive and insightful treatment of residential redlining available, the author unwraps the corporate and financial means and mechanisms of disinvestment in the housing market. If you are starting to suspect that “housing consumers” are just production inputs for transnational profit grabbing by builders and money lenders, this book will show you how it really works. A solid and comprehensive piece of research.’
—Neil Smith, Graduate Center, CUNY