Reconsidering the super-rich: Variations, structural conditions and urban consequences

Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 18-40

  Koh, Sin Yee ^a   Wissink, Bart ^b   Forrest, Ray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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