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The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 28 Oct 2022 05:26:42
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

Destin Jenkins, "The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City"
English | ISBN: 022672154X | 2021 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power.

In this passionate and deeply researched book, Destin Jenkins shows in vivid detail how, beyond the borrowing decisions of American cities and beneath their quotidian infrastructure, there lurks a world of politics and finance that is rarely seen, let alone understood. Focusing on San Francisco,
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