International journal of urban and regional research Vol. 33. No. 2 june 2009

Symposium


The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis
Manuel B. Aalbers

Jesus Hernandez
Redlining revisited: mortgage lending patterns in sacramento 1930–2004

Kathe Newman
Post-industrial widgets: capital flows and the production of the urban

Elvin Wyly, Markus Moos, Daniel Hammel, Emanuel Kabahizi
Cartographies of race and class: mapping the class-monopoly rents of American subprime mortgage capital

Kevin Fox Gotham
Creating liquidity out of spatial fixity: the secondary circuit of capital and the subprime mortgage crisis

Thomas Wainwright
Laying the foundations for a crisis: mapping the historico-geographical construction of residential mortgage backed securitization in the UK

Manuel B. Aalbers
The globalization and Europeanization of mortgage markets

Saskia Sassen
When local housing becomes an electronic instrument: the global circulation of mortgages — a research note

Gary A. Dymski
Afterword: mortgage markets and the urban problematic in the global transition


Urban Worlds


Benjamin Goldfrank, Andrew Schrank
Municipal neoliberalism and municipal socialism: urban political economy in Latin America


Articles

Valeria Guarneros-Meza
Mexican urban governance: how old and new institutions coexist and interact

Miguel Kanai, Iliana Ortega-Alcázar
The prospects for progressive culture-led urban regeneration in Latin America: cases from Mexico City and Buenos Aires

Heike C. Alberts
Berlin's failed bid to host the 2000 summer Olympic games: urban development and the improvement of sports facilities

Harvey Molotch, Mark Treskon
Changing art: Soho, Chelsea and the dynamic geography of galleries in New York City

Debates and Developments

Sharon Zukin
Changing landscapes of power: opulence and the urge for authenticity

AbdouMaliq Simone
Debate on 'the market as the new emperor': introductory note

Jieming Zhu
Anne Haila's 'the market as the new emperor'

Clara Irazábal
One size does not fit all: land markets and property rights for the construction of the just city

Nicholas Blomley, Janet C. Sturgeon
Property as abstraction

Scott Lash
Against institutionalism

Anne Haila
Chinese alternatives