Origins of an Urban Crisis
The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Schafran (0000-0003-1990-925X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 663-688 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01150.x |
| OpenAlex | W2129894726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 48 |
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.RésuméLes communautés vivant à la périphérie des métropoles américaines ont récemment suscité l'attention comme pôles de la crise des saisies hypothécaires et de ses conséquences. Cet intérêt pour la nature urbaine de la crise est opportun, car la métamorphose du fiasco immobilier en crise financière alliée à un effondrement de l'économie mondiale a détourné l'attention des racines urbaines de ce désastre. Cependant, pointer ainsi les périphéries comme sites de la crise cautionne l'idée fausse selon laquelle elles seules en sont la source, et non la restructuration urbaine dans son ensemble. Cette analyse opère à plusieurs échelons afin d'examiner comment trois facteurs entrelacés (démographie, politique et capital) ont chacun réagi au paysage de Bay Area hérité de la fin des années 1970, dans la région métropolitaine de San Francisco. Celle-ci a été affectée de façons nouvelles, laissant certains lieux florissants et d'autres aux prises avec les saisies hypothécaires, la situation conduisant à l'effondrement de l'immobilier et à une incertitude profonde de la métropole américaine actuelle. On peut envisager cette restructuration comme la convergence de la crise urbaine non résolue de l'après-guerre avec les diverses réponses données à l'époque néolibérale. Cela implique de réimaginer à la fois l'urbanisme et la géographie, en particulier de la part de la Gauche
Archaeology · Economic geography · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Financial crisis · Foreclosure · Geography · Keynesian economics · Political science · Population · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Thriving · Urban hierarchy · Demography · History · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urbanization and City Planning
Restructuring, Race, and Real Estate
We’re just existing, not living!” Mortgage stress and the concealed costs of coping with crisis
Political Economy and Regional Development
Mainstream and Shadow Banking
Urban Restructuring
The modalities and politics of crisis urbanism
Nimbyism as a barrier to housing and social mix in San Francisco
The City as a Fiscal Derivative
Hella ghetto!’
Debating urban studies in 23 steps
Discourse and dystopia, American style
Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0
Are we keeping up? Accessibility, equity and air quality in regional planning
Revisiting location efficiency
Who Drives Neighborhood Income Growth? An Analysis of New Versus Long-Term Residents in the Northern California Megaregion
Is Housing Diversity Good for Community Stability? Evidence from the Housing Crisis
Geographies of finance II
Malls of Meaning
Capital and conscience
Think regionally, act locally
Race, Space, and Struggles for Mobility
An unexpected geography of opportunity in the wake of the foreclosure crisis
Neighborhood and socioeconomic change in emerging megapolitan nodes
Analyzing Census tract foreclosure risk rates in mature and developing suburbs in the United States
Residential development during the Great Recession
Instrumental exploitation
Gated gardens
Rethinking Mega-Regions
Concentration or diffusion? Exploring the emerging spatial dynamics of poverty distribution in Southern California
Building a culturally-responsive, family-driven early childhood system of care
Beyond Tear Gas and Torched Dumpsters
Cities, Racialized Poverty, and Infrastructures of Possibility
Locating neighbourhood diversity in the American metropolis
Stress in Suburbia
Obstacles to Social Service Collaboration in Response to the Great Recession
Bureaucratic politics and the translation of movement agendas
Value at Risk in the Suburbs
Beyond studentification in United States College Towns
City as borderland
Unravelling neighbourhood change
The Strange Case of the Bay Area
Cycles of Investment
Mapping perceptions of Islamophobia in the San Francisco Bay Area, California
Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance
Black Lives Matter, gentrification and the security state in the San Francisco Bay Area
Policing the California Outercity
Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society
Suburban warriors
Voices of decline
City of Quartz
Place Matters
Splintering Urbanism
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Sprawl
The City as a Legal Concept
The Neoliberal City
Urban Informality
Gentrification in a Global Context
City for Sale
American Babylon
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia
Housing and the Financial Crisis
Boomburbs
Manufacturing Suburbs
The Suburban Ghetto
Edgeless Cities
Environmental Justice and the New Regionalism
Cities Destroyed (Again) For Cash
Neighborhoods in Transition
Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000
Neoliberalizing Space
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
The Geography of Community
Geography and Sovereignty
The Urban Wilderness
Entrepreneurial Vernacular
The city and the grassroots
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Decline of Inner Suburbs
The Limits of Out-Migration for the Black Middle Class
New Globalism, New Urbanism
Positively Radical
Redlining Revisited
Afterword
The Infrastructural Limits to Growth
Cartographies of Race and Class
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| Citations per year | 3,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |