moneyscape

English

Etymology

money +‎ -scape

Noun

moneyscape (plural moneyscapes)

1. A financial environment; the state of an economy.
   • 2007, The Recorder: A Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, page 58:

     I've nothing against money, except when I don't have it. But artists make things and things enter the turbulent economic moneyscape.

   • 2015 April 23, Rob Stock, “Young New Zealanders get a voice in Ruth, Roger and Me”, in Stuff:

     It's the story of where the bleak moneyscape the twenty-somethings face came from.

   • 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, page 404:

     For individuals, if you want to stay rich in the current moneyscape, it's best to take the haircut and accept your fifty million and walk.

2. A location that is frequented by the rich.
   • 1994, Paul McCarthy, Postmodern Desire, Learning from India, page 116:

     This has also been the case in other Indian cities, for example, South Delhi has been turned into a 'moneyscape' (King, 1990a).

   • 2010 September 23, Peter Rainer, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: movie review”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     The gleam of Manhattan's moneyscapes – the lavish fundraising banquets, the mansions, the clothes – have an Arabian Nights allure.

   • 2014 August 22, Sam Anderson-Ramos, “On Leaving Dove Springs: A meditation on neighborhood, fear, family, and change”, in The Austin Chronicle:

     In the past I looked down on neighborhoods like Lincoln Square and East Sixth Street as too cute, fabricated urban moneyscapes for superficial suburbanites without taste, without a sense of adventure.