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Title: Alpha City
Condition: New
Subtitle: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich
Author: Rowland Atkinson
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1788737989
EAN: 9781788737982
ISBN: 9781788737982
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math, Society & Culture
Release Date: 25/05/2021
Description: Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals. Compared to New York or Tokyo, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population. Taken as a whole, London is the epicentre of the world's finance markets, an elite cultural hub, and a place to hide one's wealth.

Alpha City moves from gated communities and the mega-houses of the super-rich to the disturbing rise of evictions and displacements from the city. It shows how the consequences of widening inequality have an impact on the urban landscape. Rowland Atkinson presents a history of the property boom economy, going back to the end of Empire. It tells the story of eager developers, sovereign wealth and grasping politicians, all paving the way for the wealthy colonisation of the cityscape. The consequences of this transformation of the capital for capital is the brutal expulsion of the urban poor, austerity, cuts, demolitions, and a catalogue of social injustices.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 16mm
Item Weight: 221g
Release Year: 2021

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