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Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets

ISBN: 978-1-444-34231-4

June 2011

Wiley-Blackwell

256 pages

Description

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
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.