Any urban geographers interested in/working on this theme? Anyone interested? Perhaps even the guerilla geographers groups might like to start setting up guided tours, re the excerpt below from this fascinating FT article:
"This hidden Paris is now emerging thanks to Transparency International and some interesting police findings. The group and other parties filed a criminal suit in 2008 accusing various African dictators of possessing stolen assets in France. The highest French court eventually accepted the case, which is still to be heard. By now police and judges have dug up so much information that someone should start offering tours of tyrants’ Paris, just as you can tour movie stars’ homes in Hollywood. “Tyrant tours” would also work in Manhattan or London. (The Mubaraks weren’t the only rulers who liked Knightsbridge.) The choicest bits of the west’s great cities belong, in part, to foreign dictators. We complain about these people, but we need them." (article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/12869f34-f525-11e0-9023-00144feab49a.html#axzz1hwGyjghE).
Dr Jon Cloke
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Geography Department
Loughborough University
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