Cities and the Super-Rich

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.

Ray Forrest is Chair Professor of Housing and Urban Studies, Urban Research Group, Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong.
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.