Power, Glamour and Angst Inside Australia's Elite Neighbourhoods /

• Main Author: Wiesel, Ilan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Contemporary City
• Subjects: Urban geography.; Human geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Ethnology.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Human Geography.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urbanism.; Cultural Anthropology.

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods - Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. The book explores how living in these neighbourhoods shap...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Polarisation
• 2. Prestige
• 3. Networks
• 4. Diversity
• 5. Mobilisations
• 6. Densification
• 7. Thoroughfare
• 8. Contradictions.