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Minimum City? The Deeper Impacts of the ‘Super-Rich’ on Urban Life

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This chapter offers an analysis of the spatial distribution of the wealthy in London and considers how their pronounced growth has affected neighbourhood life and the social politics of London. These changes entwine with ideological commitments to welcome capital and the rich, while at the same time, investments and commitments in the public sphere diminish. We thereby consider the lived impacts of these shifts at a time when the city faces one of the worst social crises in generations. We describe this political conjunction and its associated socio-spatial formations as a ‘minimum city’ in which growing abundance among the few moves the city away from collective provision, social justice and inclusive urban spaces.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Urban Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Rowland Atkinson

  2. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon-Tyne, UK

    Roger Burrows

  3. International Inequalities Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK

    Luna Glucksberg

  4. Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Hang Kei Ho

  5. Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

    Caroline Knowles

  6. Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, York, UK

    David Rhodes

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  1. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Ray Forrest

  2. Institute of Asian Studies, University Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam

    Sin Yee Koh

  3. City University of Hong Kong , Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Bart Wissink

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Atkinson, R., Burrows, R., Glucksberg, L., Ho, H.K., Knowles, C., Rhodes, D. (2017). Minimum City? The Deeper Impacts of the ‘Super-Rich’ on Urban Life. In: Forrest, R., Koh, S., Wissink, B. (eds) Cities and the Super-Rich. The Contemporary City. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54834-4_13

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