Overview
- Highlights the need to look beyond the super-rich by examining the underlying structural forces that have contributed to their emergence, growth, and development.
- Considers how the super-rich have been discursively and materially co-produced by various stakeholders (e.g. governments, politicians, intermediaries, the media, etc.).
- Showcases the different (segregated and integrative) forms of elite practices and super-rich spatialities in different cities.
- Interrogates the wider political economy of the 1% city.
Part of the book series: The Contemporary City (TCONTCI)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Elite Spatialities and Practices
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Urban Political Economies
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About this book
With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists, geographers, historians, discourse analysts, and urban studies specialists reveal crucial aspects of the real estate investment practices of the super-rich, their social spaces in the city as well as the distinct influence of the super-rich on the transformation of four key cities: London, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong. By drawing together diverse disciplines, perspectives, and experiences across different geographical contexts, this book offers a fresh, comparative, and nuanced take on the super-rich and the 1% city, as well as a solid, empirically and theoretically grounded basis to think about future research questions and policy implications.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sin Yee Koh is Assistant Professor of Geography, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
Bart Wissink is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Urban Policy, Urban Research Group, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cities and the Super-Rich
Book Subtitle: Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies
Editors: Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink
Series Title: The Contemporary City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54834-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55715-5Published: 28 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71808-5Published: 01 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54834-4Published: 28 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5463
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5471
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 296
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality