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

by Destin Jenkins

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.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780226819983