Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London's Super‐Rich

Atkinson, Rowland

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12707

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“…On average these two would involve about 1,253 m 3 of earth being removed. [8] shows two examples of basements that would be allocated to Type 6, wall) and detached on the other. Second, we made a judgement as to the size of the basement using a simple three-point scale: standard; large; or mega.…”

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Luxified Troglodytism? Mapping the subterranean geographies of plutocratic London

Baldwin¹,

Holroyd²,

Burrows³

2019

Arq

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The history of London has long been entwined with expansions of financial capital and the machinations of global plutocrats and their more proximate counterparts.1 However, what has happened in the decade since the global financial crisis is without precedent. London has been transformed into a city for global capital rather than one designed to meet the needs and aspirations of the majority of its denizens.2

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Luxified Troglodytism? Mapping the subterranean geographies of plutocratic London

Baldwin¹,

Holroyd²,

Burrows³

2019

Arq

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“…London's housing market is highly internationalised, receiving annually 'massive injections of overseas capital' (Atkinson, 2019). Many of those who invest in London's property are high net worth individuals with 13.3% of the world's global elite living in the UK, primarily in London (Atkinson et al, 2016).…”

Section: London's Housing Market: What Makes An 'Ordinary' Buyer and mentioning

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Towards a pluralistic understanding of Chinese homeowners: the case of ‘ordinary’ buyers

Brill¹,

Raco²

2020

Geoforum

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In this paper we address 'ordinary' Chinese buyers in London's residential real estate market. We argue that current academic and policy analysis, particularly of elites, has focused on the higher-end of the market and over-emphasised the detached nature of international buyers. In contrast, building on, but departing from, existing analyses of the multiple classes of Chinese investors evident in London (see Glucksberg, 2016), we reveal the tactics and motivations of buyers with budgets of less than £500,000. We show that they are motivated by good schools, easy commutes and use similar technologies to mediate and understand the market to local buyers. Such aims and approaches, we argue, show the ordinariness of many Chinese buyers. Underpinning their aims is an aspirational, class-defined desire based on making sacrifices so their children can have a 'normal British life'. This becomes an elective belonging, as they integrate into the norms of London's housing market. In demonstrating how the realities of ordinary buyers contrasts with existing narratives of Chinese investors, we highlight plurality of experiences, strategies and aims of Chinese people buying homes. We argue such an understanding forces us to rethink the form and character of Chinese investment practices in western cities by de-centring London's prime areas and purchasers when analysing property acquisition's internationalisation. In turn this evidences the false binary of local and international demand and shows the complexities hidden behind narratives of international capital. 'contributed to the growth of protectionist and xenophobic discourses

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“…Diversity has become associated with a growing divergence in life chances, opportunities, and incomes. As Douglass et al (2012) argue, global cities have become increasingly associated with new forms of 'enclave urbanism' in which powerful elites live in exclusive and increasingly gated and gentrified parts of the city (Atkinson 2019). Dorling (2014) similarly draws on numerical evidence to show that inequalities in 'diverse' global cities are now higher than at any time since the Nineteenth Century.…”

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A Tale of Two Cities: Framing urban diversity as content curation in super-diverse London and Toronto

Raco¹,

Taşan‐Kok²

2020

CCS Journal

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In major cities across the world policy-makers are searching for new ways to represent and govern their increasingly diverse populations. In this paper we analyse the ways in which authorities in two global cities, London and Toronto, have drawn on corporate, public management, strategies as their principal mode of diversity governance. In both we see a shift in policy making as a conscious attempt to reframe and re-imagine cities as corporate-like structures that can be conceptualised, represented, and managed through the lens of diversity management. In both cities specific representations of the city and its populations are curated to fulfil wider policy objectives. City governments present both as iconic centres of diversity, super-diversity or hyper-diversity, that embody and represent an era of progressive globalisation and new forms of contemporary cosmopolitan living. The presence of diversity is celebrated and seen a key component of ‘success agendas’. This paper is based on empirical evidence derived from a policy-oriented research project in both cities. Policy analysis and critical discourse analysis are conducted in both cities on the basis of review of policy documents at national, local and community scales, and interviews with policy makers. The paper first frames diversity as a technology of description, where we explain how diversity has become a curation strategy in public management within the framework of growing mobility of management frameworks and shifts in framing diversity in urban policies. We will then provide a comparative analysis of London and Toronto.

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Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London's Super‐Rich

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

Luxified Troglodytism? Mapping the subterranean geographies of plutocratic London

Luxified Troglodytism? Mapping the subterranean geographies of plutocratic London

Towards a pluralistic understanding of Chinese homeowners: the case of ‘ordinary’ buyers

A Tale of Two Cities: Framing urban diversity as content curation in super-diverse London and Toronto

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