Financial Transformation and the Metropolis: Booms, Busts, and Banking in Los Angeles

Gary Dymski and J M Veitch
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J M Veitch: Department of Economics, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1996, vol. 28, issue 7, 1233-1260

Abstract: In this paper the implications of the two eras of financial transformation in the 20th century—that of the 1930s and that of the 1980s and 1990s—for urban growth and inequality in Southern California are examined. It is argued that financial structures have profound effects on the pace and distributional consequences of urban growth, in large part because urban development is characterized by widespread spatial spillover effects. The contemporary era of financial transformation has widened gaps between urban communities and banking customer markets. Banking markets that were once segmented by regulation are now segmented by market dynamics. In consequence, a financial system which once facilitated wealth building for households and communities now deepens social inequality and spatial separation. In this paper the historical and contemporary experience of Los Angeles is used to both develop and illustrate the arguments made.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1068/a281233

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