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Racial/ethnic segregation is a cause of urban inequality. This, in turn, perpetuates disadvantaged groups' spatial segregation and difficulty in upward mobility. Planned racial and social segregation through a process of redlining almost one hundred years ago is fundamental to understanding today's patterns of urban inequality. The aim of this study is to analyze the links between racial/ethnic segregation and inequality in Kansas City (MO). After studying the origins and significance of redlining in the city, an analysis is made of the distribution and segregation of the African American and Hispanic populations at an intra-urban level in addition to an analysis of urban inequality at a census tract level, using economic and housing indicators. We conclude that Kansas City is a divided city. The processes of segregation and inequality are clearly interrelated. The historical redlining map of racial segregation is reflected in today's socio-spatial map of inequality.

A partir de datos recogidos en el Servicio Común de Notificaciones y Embargos de los juzgados del partido judicial de Palma se han elaborado las cartografías de la evolución de los desahucios por impago de alquiler y las ejecuciones hipotecarias acaecidas en la ciudad entre 2003 y 2014. La desposesión de vivienda en Palma denota un comportamiento desigual, siendo mucho más intensa la concentración de ejecuciones hipotecarias en el área urbana más precarizada. No obstante, los desahucios por impago de alquiler se establecen en los espacios de gentrificación. El artículo explica este desarrollo de la geografía desigual de los desahucios a partir de las narrativas que explican la construcción geohistórica de Palma.Palabras clave: desahucios, ejecuciones hipotecarias, desposesión de vivienda, cartografías, Palma.

El proceso de perdida de la vivienda que está sacudiendo a parte de la población con consecuencia de ejecuciones hipotecarias se entiende como parte de una estrategia de desposesión y cercamiento que la literatura al uso ha llamado new urban enclosures. Para analizar el proceso se presenta el caso de Menorca donde se analizan las ejecuciones hipotecarias con diferentes grados de resolución geográfica, llegando a la escala de dirección postal. El análisis se vincula a la política crediticia que alimentó la burbuja y con la geografía de los diferentes estatus sociales de la isla. Los resultados muestran cómo las ciudades, y en ellas las zonas de estatus social menor, es donde el proceso de desposesiones de viviendas por ejecuciones hipotecarias ha sido mayor, mientras que en las zonas rurales con zonas donde reside población con estatus social más heterogéneo el impacto de la crisis ha sido menor.

Affordable housing, either owner-occupied or rented, is regarded as a key element of social reproduction. However, processes of housing commodification and financialization have increasingly resulted in precariatization of the population and the loss of the right to housing. In the Spanish case, neoliberal policies geared to the revalorization of built environments had caused a housing bubble of historical magnitude. Since it burst, a large number of households have been dispossessed of housing, clearly reflected in the avalanche of foreclosures and evictions that hit Spanish cities as the crisis unfolded. This paper focuses on the urban area of Palma (Majorca) by analyzing the foreclosures exerted on home­owners and the evictions of tenants who, from the start of the crisis of 2008, have not been able to afford their mortgage payments or rents. These evictions and foreclosures are correlated with the social status of the urban areas affected. The results show that the increase of evictions and foreclosures has emerged unevenly around the city. While tenant evictions have affected all types of urban areas, foreclosures have become much more evident in urban areas of low social status. ; Bezahlbarer Wohnraum, als Eigentum genutzt oder gemietet, gilt als ein Schlüsselfaktor für die soziale Repro-duktion. Indem jedoch das Gut "Wohnung" immer mehr zur Ware und zum Objekt der Finanzanlage wurde, gestaltete sich die Situation der Wohnbevölkerung zunehmend prekär und Menschen verloren das Recht auf Wohnraum. Im Falle Spaniens löste eine neoliberale Politik, die darauf ausgerichtet war, Wertschöpfung durch Bautätigkeit zu schaffen, einen Bauboom historischen Ausmaßes aus. Seit dessen Zusammenbruch hat eine gro-ße Zahl von Haushalten ihren Wohnraum verloren, was sich vor allem an der Lawine der Kündigungen und Zwangsräumungen zeigt, die die Städte Spaniens überrollte, als sich die Krise entfaltete. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Zwangsräumungen, die in Palma de Mallorca gegenüber Hausbesitzern und Mietern ...

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