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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

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Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D.
University of Amsterdam 
Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt)
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1018 VZ  Amsterdam
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Online ISSN: 1468-2427    Print ISSN: 0309-1317
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
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.
 

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 281-290  The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis
MANUEL B. AALBERS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Published Online: 2 Jul 2009
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00869.x