Cities and the super-rich : real estate, elite practices, and urban political economies /: real estate, elite practices, and urban political economies. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink, editors.
• Editors: Forrest, Ray; Koh, Sin Yee; Wissink, Bart
• Contents: Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 In Search of the Super-rich: Who are they? Where are they? -- Ray Forrest, Bart Wissink and Sin Yee Koh -- 2 Elites Without Hierarchies: Intermediaries, 'Agency' and the Super-rich -- William Davies -- Part I: Real Estate Investments -- 3 Real Estate Holdings among the Super Rich in the United States -- Richard A. Benton, Lisa A. Keister and Hang Young Lee -- 4 The Super-Rich and Transnational Housing Markets: Asians Buying Australian Housing -- Chris Paris -- 5 Becoming a Super-Rich Foreign Real Estate Investor: Globalising Real Estate Data, Publications and Events -- Dallas Rogers -- Part II: Elite Spatialities and Practices -- 6 Beyond the City: Exploring the Maritime Geographies of the Super-Rich -- Emma Spence -- 7 Reviving Transnational Elite Sociality: Social Clubs in Shanghai -- Yannan Ding -- 8 Old Money, Networks and Distinction: The Social and Service Clubs of Milan's Upper Classes -- Bruno Cousin and Sébastien Chauvin -- 9 Arts and the Super-Rich: Emerging Relations in the Gulf and the East -- Sarina Wakefield -- Part III: Urban Political Economies -- 10 Selling the Tokyo Sky: Urban Regeneration and Luxury Housing -- Yosuke Hirayama -- 11 Elite informality, Spaces of Exception and the Super-Rich in Singapore -- Choon-Piew Pow -- 12 Tycoon City: Political Economy, Real Estate and the Super-Rich in Hong Kong -- Bart Wissink, Sin Yee Koh, and Ray Forrest -- 13 Minimum City? The Deeper Impacts of the 'Super-Rich' on Urban Life -- Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows, Luna Glucksberg, Hang Kei-Ho, Caroline Knowles and David Rhodes -- 14 Hyper-Divided Cities and the 'Immoral' Super-Rich - Five Parting Questions -- Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 332.63/24; Social sciences; Real estate investment; City and town life; Affluent consumers -- Housing; Metropolitan government; Rich people; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance; City and town life; Metropolitan government; Real estate investment; Rich people; Social Sciences; Urban Studies/Sociology; Urban Economics; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Business & Economics -- Urban & Regional; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Urban economics; Social issues & processes; Sociology, Urban; Urban economics; Social Science -- Sociology -- Urban; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137548344; 1137548347
• Related ISBNs: 9781137557155; 113755715X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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