London and New York as a safe deposit box for the transnational wealth elite

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2443-2461

  Fernandez, Rodrigo ^a   Hofman, Annelore ^a   Aalbers, Manuel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elites; financialisation; global cities; housing markets; London; New York; offshore financial centres; spatial fix

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; INVESTMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; WORLD CITY;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85002428419     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X16659479     Document Type: Article

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