Schafran, A orcid.org/0000-0003-1990-925X (2013) Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37 (2). pp. 663-688. ISSN 0309-1317
Abstract
Communities on the fringes of the American metropolis have recently garnered attention as the centers of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath. On the one hand, this attention to the urban nature of the crisis is welcome, as the metamorphosis of the mortgage fiasco into a financial crisis‐cum‐global economic meltdown turned popular attention away from the urban roots of this calamity. But this emphasis on the exurbs as the site of crisis lends itself to the misconception that they, rather than the restructuring of the metropolis as a whole, are the sole source of the crisis. This article works across multiple scales to examine how three interwoven factors — demographics, policy and capital — each reacted to the San Francisco Bay Area landscape inherited at the end of the 1970s, affecting the region in new ways, leaving some places thriving and others struggling with foreclosure, which leads to plummeting property values and the deep uncertainty of the current American metropolis. This restructuring can be seen as the convergence between the unresolved urban crisis of the postwar era and the various reactions in the neoliberal era. It demands a reimagining of both planning and geography, especially from the left.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2012 Urban Research Publications Limited. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Schafran, A (2013) Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37 (2). pp. 663-688, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01150.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
Keywords: | regional restructuring; urban planning; foreclosure crisis; segregation; San Francisco; Oakland; Antioch; Stockton; Walnut Creek; USA |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2019 09:26 |
Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2019 09:26 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01150.x |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124937 |