{"title":"Caroline Knowles","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaroline Knowles writes with a sharp eye on contemporary social issues, blending rigorous analysis with engaging narrative. 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Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super-rich, and the lives they lead?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo find out more about this secretive elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. A move behind closed doors takes us ever further into the dark heart of the plutocratic city, from multimillion-pound mansions to gentlemen's clubs. Along the way, we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them - bankers, aristocrats, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, \u003cem\u003eSerious Money\u003c\/em\u003e explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat's recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city - we make it too, and could demand something different. 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A decade on, we live in the ruins of this ‘golden era’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUneasy Streets\u003c\/em\u003e by Caroline Knowles explores China’s global influence from the bottom up. Focusing on London and Manchester, she contrasts Beijing’s grand claims with the ramshackle physical evidence she finds at street level: a series of half-finished buildings and abandoned holes in the ground. And this isn’t just a British phenomenon. All along the continent-spanning Belt and Road network, Chinese-funded cities are patchworks of incompleteness, the products of relentlessly profit-driven urbanism that puts people last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChina’s soft-power city-making falls far short of the dreams displayed in glossy brochures. Combining urban observation with sharp commentary, interviewing property developers, Chinese migrants and other city-dwellers, Knowles paints an intimate, nuanced portrait. 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Knowles asks pertinent questions about China, reminding us that even in the transnational age, all politics is local.’ – Martin Thorley, author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Glistens: Chinese Party-State Influence in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A rich, ground-level account of how global Chinese investment is lived and felt within UK urban neighbourhoods. Through captivating narratives about everyday encounters, partial developments, uneven transformations and unrealised futures, it renders abstract geopolitical processes tangible.’ – Anna Lora-Wainwright, Professor of the Human Geography of China, University of Oxford, and author of \u003ci\u003eChina: The Basics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A master analyst of city life from the street up, Knowles has done it again, with a surgical probe into the complex and contested footprints of a globalising China along the streets of London and Manchester and much beyond.’ – Xiangming Chen, Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, Trinity College, Connecticut, and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Cities, Local Streets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67712428769516,"sku":"9781805265627","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781805265627-uneasy-streets-1.jpg?v=1791856046"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/caroline-knowles.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}