Redlining

Authors
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • R. Kitchin
  • N. Thrift
Book title International encyclopedia of human geography
ISBN
  • 9780080449111
Pages (from-to) 117-124
Publisher Amsterdam: Elsevier Science
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract This article conceptualizes redlining in terms of a self-fulfilling prophecy. It discusses how processes and institutions at different scales contribute to the process of redlining, and to our understanding of redlining. It explains the origins of redlining in the US as well as development of redlining, anti-redlining struggles, and redlining research in the US. Finally, it deals with the scare evidence of redlining outside the US, and with the occurrence of redlining in other markets than that of mortgage finance, such as insurance.
Document type Chapter
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