Urban Culture - Urban Elites

Urban Elites

Globally, urban areas tend to also be home to concentrations of power, such as government capitals and corporate headquarters, and the wealthy and powerful people that are employed in them. Though, in some countries, elites have built themselves enclaves outside of the central city (e.g. white flight in the United States).

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