Dear all, Here's a little piece of self-promotion. My book, "Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets" just got published. It deals with redlining and related exclusionary policies in the U.S., Italy and the Netherlands. It also includes more conceptual chapters on social and financial exclusion, and credit scoring. Please find some information below. Best, Manuel
-- Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D. University of Amsterdam Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 1018 VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.b.aalbers/ Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets Just as in society, the mortgage market may exclude people on the basis of place, as well as race. Place-based exclusion in the mortgage market often takes the form of "redlining", a tacit agreement among lending institutions to delineate sections of cities into areas where no home mortgages are to be issued. Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. Through a careful balanceof comparative research and literature reviews, author Manuel B. Aalbers reveals how redlining, which is most visible at the urban level, is also constituted at the interaction of several spatial scales: neighborhood, urban, regional, national, and global. By utilizing several research strategies and presenting documented evidence from various urban sectors in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands, this book offers fresh insights and much needed analytical clarity to shape our understanding of redlining and other urban exclusion processes. "An important book that fills the empirical and theoretical gaps in the literature on the sociology and geography of mortgage markets. The book is a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative exploration of the historical trajectory of urban disinvestment (redlining) and social exclusion that compares the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. This book should be read by anyone with an interest in housing finance systems, real estate, comparative metropolitan development, and financial globalization." —*Kevin Fox Gotham*, Tulane University, USA "The most detailed, exhaustive and insightful treatment of residential redlining available, the author unwraps the corporate and financial means and mechanisms of disinvestment in the housing market. If you are starting to suspect that “housing consumers” are just production inputs for transnational profit grabbing by builders and money lenders, this book will show you how it really works. A solid and comprehensive piece of research." —*Neil Smith,* *Graduate Center, CUNY* *More information, table of contents and introductory chapter:* *http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405196580.html*<http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405196580.html>
