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- Red Line Response
By Noah Chasin
Mortgages are not inherently sexy. As some of us learned the other night, however, the process of demystifying them has a certain frisson that shouldn’t easily be dismissed. Damon Rich of the Center for Urban Pedagogy spoke about the history of mortgages– from the term’s French derivation (it translates to ‘death vow,’ and […]
- Video: Damon Rich
Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures
Damon Rich, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Thursday, January 17
An edited version of Damon Rich’s lecture on CUP’s new project exploring financial architecture from the Great Depression to the subprime meltdown. This project is commissioned by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. The lecture traced the evolving […]
