Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes.

* Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries - the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands

* Presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice of redlining

* Connects the literature on social exclusion and financial exclusion

Manuel B. Aalbers is Associate Professor in the
Department of Geography at the University of Leuven,
Belgium. He is the Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of
Urban Studies (2009), and has published extensively on
redlining, gentrification, the privatization of social housing,
financialization, and the Anglophone hegemony in academic
writing.

Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes.

• Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries - the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands
• Presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice of redlining
• Connects the literature on social exclusion and financial exclusion

List of Illustrations vi

Series Editors' Preface ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part I The Exclusion, Urban, and Market Lenses 11

1 Social and Financial Exclusion 13

2 A Socio-Spatial Approach 35

3 Markets, Institutions, Risk, Credit Scoring 53

Part II Redlining Research in the United States, Italy, and
the Netherlands 77

4 The United States: One Century of Redlining 79

5 Italy: Capital Switching in Milan 103

6 The Netherlands: Colored Maps 124

Photo Essay The Tarwewijk, Rotterdam 166

Part III Conclusions 179

7 The Globalization of Redlining? 181

References 199

Index 222