Bas van Heur is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.David Bassens is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

• 1. An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism 2. Making and mapping Britain's "new ordinary elite" 3. The challenge of researching "partial exit" and "rootedness" among upper-middle classes in European cities 4. Naked elites: unveiling embodied markers of superiority through co-performance ethnography in gentrified Brooklyn's Park Slope 5. Contingently elite: affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption 6. Investigating urban elites through fear and security in Porto Alegre 7. Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London's financial district 8. Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies

Bas van Heur is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.David Bassens is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

• 1. An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism 2. Making and mapping Britain's "new ordinary elite" 3. The challenge of researching "partial exit" and "rootedness" among upper-middle classes in European cities 4. Naked elites: unveiling embodied markers of superiority through co-performance ethnography in gentrified Brooklyn's Park Slope 5. Contingently elite: affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption 6. Investigating urban elites through fear and security in Porto Alegre 7. Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London's financial district 8. Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies

Bas van Heur is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.David Bassens is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.

• 1. An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism 2. Making and mapping Britain's "new ordinary elite" 3. The challenge of researching "partial exit" and "rootedness" among upper-middle classes in European cities 4. Naked elites: unveiling embodied markers of superiority through co-performance ethnography in gentrified Brooklyn's Park Slope 5. Contingently elite: affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption 6. Investigating urban elites through fear and security in Porto Alegre 7. Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London's financial district 8. Follow the money: cultural patronage and urban elite geographies