The symptoms of housing crisis are everywhere in evidence today. Households are being
squeezed by the cost of living. Homelessness is on the rise. Evictions and foreclosures are …

Since the classic work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey, the 'secondary circuit of
capital'has been a focal point for debate among critical urban scholars. Against the …

This chapter discusses the rise of two related but distinct concepts about the organization of
the financial system that each take their inspiration from ideas developed within the natural …

1.1. Background Interest in financial exclusion has grown to the extent that it is now
regarded as 'a new buzzword in Blair's Britain'1. At the same time, there has been growing …

The author examines the US real estate sector to show how the state shapes global real
estate flows and networks of activity through the creation and control of liquid resources. The …

Research in geography and urban studies has only really taken money and finance
seriously in the last ten to fifteen years or so. Looking back on the type of research …

For decades community activists fought to increase access to capital for disinvested
communities. Now community activists question whether communities have access to capital …

This article will explore the geographical origins of Residential Mortgage Backed
Securitization (RMBS) in the United States and map the subsequent migration of RMBS, as …

This chapter examines the current crisis within the US housing finance sector as an
illustration of the contradictions of capital circulation as expressed in the tendency of capital …

Urban sustainability has become a political and social agenda of global significance, of
which real estate is an integral dimension. Sustainable urban development includes much …