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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.

Cities and the Super-Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies

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.