Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets

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

List of Illustrations.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface and Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I The Exclusion, Urban, and Market Lenses.

1 Social and Financial Exclusion.

2 A Socio-Spatial Approach.

3 Markets, Institutions, Risk, Credit Scoring.

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

4 The United States: One Century of Redlining.

5 Italy: Capital Switching in Milan.

6 The Netherlands: Colored Maps.

Photo Essay The Tarwewijk, Rotterdam.

Part III Conclusions.

7 The Globalization of Redlining?

References.

Index.

Manuel B. Aalbers is a Researcher in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. 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.