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Luxified Troglodytism? Mapping the subterranean geographies of plutocratic London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2020

Sophie Baldwin ,
Elizabeth Holroyd  and
Roger Burrows
Sophie Baldwin
Affiliation:
[email protected]
Elizabeth Holroyd
Affiliation:
[email protected]
Roger Burrows
Affiliation:
[email protected]
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Extract

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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Urbanism
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 267 - 282
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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