Conceptualizing the new urban renewal: Comparing the past to the present

DS Hyra - Urban Affairs Review, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In the 1990s and 2000s, inner city neighborhood redevelopment occurred throughout the
United States as billions in public and private investments entered impoverished black …

Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects

S Hall - Progress in human geography, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In this report, I examine the growing interest in financial subjects within economic geography
and the wider social sciences. I begin by locating this literature within work on …

From Kerala to Dubai and back again: Construction migrants and the global economic crisis

M Buckley - Geoforum, 2012 - Elsevier
As a crisis that was precipitated in part by risky forms of investment in the built environment,
construction workers, and particularly migrants employed in the industry have been at the …

Housing and health: a social ecological perspective on the US foreclosure crisis

K Libman, D Fields, S Saegert - Housing, Theory and Society, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This study adds to the literature linking housing and health by illustrating how poor health
can increase the risk of foreclosure, and how the threat of foreclosure can negatively affect …

A review of structurally inspired approaches in housing studies–concepts, contributions and future perspectives

J Lawson - SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies, 2012 - torrossa.com
Structuralist theories assume that individuals coexist, not as isolated atoms, but as people
bound by interdependent social relationships which may form a relatively coherent system …

Placing the run on Northern Rock

JN Marshall, A Pike, JS Pollard… - Journal of Economic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 was the first major run on a UK retail bank
since 1866. The Northern Rock case is exemplary on two fronts. First, described at the time …

Crisis is Governance: Sub-prime, the Traumatic Event, and Bare Life

J Brassett, N Vaughan-Williams - Global Society, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This article provides a critical analysis of how discourses of trauma and the traumatic event
constituted the ethico-political possibilities and limits of the sub-prime crisis. Metaphors of a …

Restructuring, race, and real estate: Changing home values and the new California metropolis, 1989-2010

A Schafran, J Wegmann - Urban Geography, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The wake of the foreclosure crisis warrants renewed attention to geographies of race and
real estate. This case study of the San Francisco Bay Area shows that outlying exurban …

Changing realities: The new racialized redevelopment rhetoric in Chicago

D Wilson, C Sternberg - Urban Geography, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The mania of" go-global" redevelopment is in full bloom in American cities. Under the
banner of pursuing global competitiveness, redevelopment governances continue to push …

'Troubled assets': The financial emergency and racialized risk

P Ashton - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the repositioning of racialized credit risk produced by new regulatory
practices that have emerged in the neoliberal era. As increasingly volatile financial markets …