Alan Walks

The financialization of housing, wealth inequality, gentrification, housing policy, automobility

Publications

Books:

Bunce, S., Livingstone, N., Moore, S., March, L. and Walks, Alan (Eds.) (2021) Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism: London & Toronto. London: University College London Press (UCL Press). (21 Chapters)

Grant, J., Walks, Alan, and Ramos, H. (Eds.) (2020) Changing Neighbourhoods: Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities. UBC Press (15 Chapters)

Walks, Alan (Ed.) (2015) The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics. London: Routledge (15 Chapters)

Sellers, J., Kubler, D., Walter-Rogg, M. and Walks, Alan (Eds.) (2013) The Political Ecology of the Metropolis. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press (New York: Columbia University Press, in USA) (14 Chapters)

Selected Articles:

Grisdale, S. and Walks, Alan (2022) Rise Overrun: Condoization, Gentrification, and the Changing Political Economy of Renting in Toronto. Urban Planning. 7(4): 229-244

Walks, Alan, Hawes, Emily, and *Simone, Dylan (2021) “Gentrification in large Canadian cities: tenure, age, and exclusionary displacement 1991-2011”. Urban Geography. 42(5): 603-633

Simone, Dylan, and Walks, Alan (2019) “Immigration, Race, Mortgage Lending, and the Geography of Debt in Canada’s Global Cities”. Geoforum. 98: 286-299

Walks, Alan (2018) “Driving the Poor into Debt? Automobile loans, Transport Disadvantage, and Automobile-Dependence”. Transport Policy. 65: 137-149

August, Martine, and Walks, Alan (2018) “Gentrification, Suburban Decline, and the Financialization of Multi-Family Rental Housing”. Geoforum. 89: 124 - 136

Walks, Alan (2016) “Homeownership, Asset-Based Welfare and the Neighbourhood Segregation of Wealth”. Housing Studies. 31(7): 755-784

Walks, Alan and Simone, Dylan (2016) “Neoliberalization through Housing Finance, the Displacement of Risk, and Canadian Housing Policy: Challenging Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis”. Research in Political Economy. 31: 49-77

Walks, Alan and Clifford, Brian (2015) “The Political Economy of Securitization and the Neoliberalization of Housing Policy in Canada”. Environment and Planning A. 47(8): 1624-1642

Rosen, Gillad. and Walks, Alan. (2015) “Castles in Toronto’s Sky: Condo-ism as Urban
Transformation”. Journal of Urban Affairs. 37 (3): 289-310

Walks, Alan (2015) “Stopping the ‘War on the Car’: Neoliberalism, Fordism, and the Politics of Automobility in Toronto”. Mobilities. 10 (3): 402-422

Walks, Alan (2014) “From Financialization to Urban Socio-Spatial polarization? Evidence from Canadian Cities”. Economic Geography. 90 (1): 33-66

Walks, Alan (2014) “Canada’s Housing Bubble Story: Mortgage Securitization, The State, and the Global Financial Crisis”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38 (1): 256-284

Walks, Alan (2013) “Suburbanism as a Way of Life, Slight Return”. Urban Studies. 50 (8): 1471-1388.

Walks, Alan (2013) “Mapping the Urban Debtscape: The Geography of Household Debt in Canadian Cities”. Urban Geography. 34 (2): 153-187