Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

In the thirty years since Massey and Denton's American Apartheid, sociological scholarship
on segregation has proliferated, calling attention to the ways in which the social geography …

The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political
economy. Housing-as-policy has been the preserve of social policy analysis and of a …

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in
geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated …

This report discusses the financialization of urban governance and the built environment as
an explicit state strategy, focusing on municipal finance and the use of financial products by …

The rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of
market forces that have been well-identified in the literature, but it was also a highly …

Financialization is often defined a pattern of accumulation in which profit-making occurs
increasingly through financial channels rather than through trade and commodity …

The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer,
creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The …

The expansion of the US penal system has important consequences for poverty and
inequality, yet little is known about the imposition of monetary sanctions. This study analyzes …

Real estate is, by definition, local as it is spatially fixed. Mortgage lending, however, has
developed from a local to a national market and is increasingly a global market today. An …