Rowland Atkinson

Associate Fellow, SPERI and Research Chair in Inclusive Society, School of Geography & Planning, University of Sheffield

City fortunes: The sources of wealth and international homeownership of the world’s urban wealth elite

Rowland Atkinson, Katie Higgins & Jonathan Bourne -  5 September 2024

We reveal the dominant industrial sectors for particular cities, key differences in the levels of inherited/self-made wealth, and the geography of their additional homes. What are the implications of new data to reveal the roots of urban fortunes around the world?

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Liverpool's port

Rex McKenzie & Rowland Atkinson - 28 June 2021

New research by Rex McKenzie and Rowland Atkinson shows the scale of inward offshore investment into Liverpool and the effects in the city.

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The onshore urban impact of offshore property investors

Rex McKenzie & Rowland Atkinson -  09 May 2019

How wealth chains can be used to map the impact of offshore investments on luxury housing markets

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Tax avoidance: Not illegal, just harmful and deviant?

Rowland Atkinson - 21 April 2016

The furore over tax avoidance, both by our national and international elites, reveals new social fault lines while highlighting a crisis of legitimacy to calls for togetherness and common purpose

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