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Dear colleagues, Please find below the table of contents for a special issue of the "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research" on "The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets". It discusses many of the topics that have been discussed recently, including subprime lending, predatory lending, securitization, financial crisis, financialization, and the deregulation of the mortgage market. Best, Manuel -- Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D. University of Amsterdam Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 1018 VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.b.aalbers/ Online ISSN: 1468-2427 Print ISSN: 0309-1317 *International Journal of Urban and Regional Research*<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485973/issue> *Volume 33, Issue 2, 2009* Journal Compilation © 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd ------------------------------ Symposium on the Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets Guest editor: MANUEL B. AALBERS From the early 1970s to the late 1980s debates on homeownership and mortgage markets were at the centre of urban sociology and human geography. Although the attention in social science has waned, the importance of mortgage markets to cities and societies has not. To the contrary: homeownership rates have steadily increased in most countries and mortgage markets have grown dramatically and now represent almost €11/$16.5 trillion worldwide. This expansion has happened at a time that most social scientists, including those in urban studies, have paid little attention to mortgage markets and have left the analysis to economists. The rise of subprime lending and securitization has resulted in a new interest among social scientists in mortgage markets and this interest has only increased since the mortgage market crisis, and indeed the global credit crisis, of 2007-2008. The authors represented in this Symposium all started working on mortgage markets before the current crisis, but their work, in very different ways, help us to understand the origins and scope of the crisis. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118511932/home 281-290 *The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis* MANUEL B. AALBERS Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485977/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00875.x 291-313 *Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento 1930–2004* JESUS HERNANDEZ Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485989/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00873.x 314-331 *Post-Industrial Widgets: Capital Flows and the Production of the Urban* KATHE NEWMAN Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122445442/abstract> *Published Online:* 8 Jun 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00863.x 332-354 *Cartographies of Race and Class: Mapping the Class-Monopoly Rents of American Subprime Mortgage Capital* ELVIN WYLY, MARKUS MOOS, DANIEL HAMMEL, EMANUEL KABAHIZI Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485980/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00870.x 355-371 *Creating Liquidity out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis* KEVIN FOX GOTHAM Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485983/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00874.x 372-388 *Laying the Foundations for a Crisis: Mapping the Historico-Geographical Construction of Residential Mortgage Backed Securitization in the UK* THOMAS WAINWRIGHT Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485995/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00876.x 389-410 *The Globalization and Europeanization of Mortgage Markets* MANUEL B. AALBERS Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122445458/abstract> *Published Online:* 8 Jun 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00877.x 411-426 *When Local Housing Becomes an Electronic Instrument: The Global Circulation of Mortgages — A Research Note* SASKIA SASSEN Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485978/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00868.x 427-442 *Afterword: Mortgage Markets and the Urban Problematic in the Global Transition* GARY A. DYMSKI Abstract <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485996/abstract> *Published Online:* 2 Jul 2009 *DOI* 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00869.x