Global City Makers

Contents:

Prologue: The global city: enabling economic intermediation and bearing its costs
Saskia Sassen

1. Agency and practice in the making of global cities: towards a renewed research agenda
Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson

2. Producer service firms as global city makers: the cases of Mexico City and Hamburg
Christof Parnreiter

3. Commodity traders as agents of economic globalization
Wouter Jacobs

4. Real estate and global capital networks: drilling into the City of London
Colin Lizieri and Daniel Mekic

5. Global cities, local practices: intermediation in the commercial real estate markets of New York City and London
David Scofield

6. The making of transnational urban space: financial professionals in the global city Tokyo
Sakura Yamamura

7. The making of Mumbai as a global city: investigating the role of the offshore services sector
Bart Lambregts, Jana Kleibert and Niels Beerepoot

8. Focal firms, grand coalitions or global city makers? Globalization vs. new localism in Hamburg's maritime network
Markus Hesse

9. Chasing the phantom of a 'global end game': the role of management consultancy in the narratives of pre-failure ABN AMRO
Michiel van Meeteren and David Bassens

Epilogue: Placing politics and power within the making of global cities
Sarah Hall

Index

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• Geografia humana
• Economia urbana
• Geografia económica

Global cities; world city network; agency; intermediation; advanced producer services; real estate