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Old Wine in Private Equity Bottles? The Resurgence of Contract-for-Deed Home Sales in US Urban Neighborhoods
This article describes the reemergence, in the wake of the mortgage crisis, of a predatory financial practice in predominantly black neighborhoods in the US: the contract for deed (CFD). The CFD has a notorious urban history; it was a focus of social justice organizing in 1960s Chicago, which helped lay the groundwork...
The Neoliberalization of Municipal Land Policy in Sweden
In Sweden, local governments’ practice of the ‘municipal land instrument’—that is, the use of public land ownership as a tool for facilitating urban development—has a long tradition. In the post‐war era, public land ownership constituted an important component of state‐led housing production, which had...
Re‐Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context
The socio‐economic dimensions of cohesion have long been considered an integral part of Europeanization. However, recently a third dimension has been added to the Europe 2020 cohesion policy debate: territorial cohesion. Consequently this term is as yet undeveloped, resulting in a lack of consensus on how to define...
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Detail from a map depicting locations of homes purchased by a Dallas based investment firm who then resold the homes through predatory financial practices in predominantly black neighborhoods in the US (© Dan Immergluck based on calculations of Fulton County Real Estate Sales data, American Community Survey;)
Detail from a design for the proposed Saltkristallerna project in Helsingborg (© Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, reproduced with permission);
Detail from a map depicting accessibility to key hospitals (access to services of general interest being one of the key indicators of EU territorial and social cohesion) in the central region of Portugal: red areas indicate higher access, blue areas lower access (© Teresa Sá Marques, Miguel Saraiva and Diogo Ribeiro)