Of Upper Nyack, N.Y., it notes, "This is where Nyack's upper class live".
With growing disparities in income, possessions and the sizes of homes came class division: an upper class, living around a town center by the water, anchored by a small cooperative store; and the rest, mostly living in the mountain jungles, feeling their first tug of envy and resentment.
Beginning in the late 19th century, Omaha's upper class lived in posh enclaves throughout the city, including the south and north Gold Coast neighborhoods, Bemis Park, Kountze Place, Field Club and throughout Midtown Omaha.
Shiller promised to work to keep the disadvantaged of Uptown from being displaced by real estate developers who were reportedly planning to develop the area for middle and upper class living.
And unlike in Delhi or many other big Indian cities, much of Mumbai's middle and upper classes live in high-rise buildings, which makes living without power much more difficult.
"I see the lower classes acting in violent, barbarian ways to their exclusion from a consumer society," he said, "and the upper classes living an enormous high -- a great party of privatization, globalization and spreading corruption".
A surge in land seizures ensued, with squatters empowered by Mr. Chávez's populist statements, said Clara Irazábal, an urban planner at the University of Southern California who is from Venezuela, as shantytowns spread from San Félix, the old colonial quarter, to Puerto Ordaz, where the middle and upper classes live.
The master of this theme is Preston Sturges, whose many brilliant comedies of the 1940's almost always involve working-class characters propelled into upper-class lives.
Fowler would never have described his preferences as upper class; he lived frugally and had no social aspirations.
In effect, they provided the ground on which abstract notions of honor coalesced into the precepts and axioms that enabled a man of the upper class to live a more noble life.
In contrast to the images of African-Americans that prevailed in other pop culture of their time, the sisters are overtly upper class; they live in a well-decorated home, graced with fancy new products like plastic boots and a television.
