Global City Makers

Edited by Michael Hoyler, Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK, Christof Parnreiter, Institute of Geography, Hamburg University, Germany and Allan Watson, Geography and Environment, School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK

• Contents:Prologue: The global city: enabling economic intermediation and bearing its costsSaskia Sassen1. Agency and practice in the making of global cities: towards a renewed research agendaMichael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson2. Producer service firms as global city makers: the cases of Mexico City and HamburgChristof Parnreiter3. Commodity traders as agents of economic globalizationWouter Jacobs4. Real estate and global capital networks: drilling into the City of LondonColin Lizieri and Daniel Mekic5. Global cities, local practices: intermediation in the commercial real estate markets of New York City and LondonDavid Scofield6. The making of transnational urban space: financial professionals in the global city TokyoSakura Yamamura7. The making of Mumbai as a global city: investigating the role of the offshore services sectorBart Lambregts, Jana Kleibert and Niels Beerepoot8. Focal firms, grand coalitions or global city makers? Globalization vs. new localism in Hamburg’s maritime networkMarkus Hesse9. Chasing the phantom of a ‘global end game’: the role of management consultancy in the narratives of pre-failure ABN AMROMichiel van Meeteren and David BassensEpilogue: Placing politics and power within the making of global citiesSarah HallIndex

'The novel contribution of the book is its engagement with global cities as specific types of spaces that are not only used by but also generated by the everyday practices of business actors. The essays introduce to the literature, diverse lenses shedding light on the process by which global business people make cities.'--Kathy Pain, University of Reading, UK'By shifting the focus towards practices and agency, Global City Makers is a timely and important intervention that reflects the current state-of-the-art in theories of global city development. Bringing together leading authorities and up-to-date research on a diverse range of cities, it will surely represent a key reference in this field.'--Andrew Jones, City, University of London, UK'As global city strategies and policies spread around the globe, this collection offers a timely insight into practices of global-city making and agents involved in these processes. Written by leading researchers and covering cities in developed and developing countries, I would recommend it highly to students, scholars and policy-makers.'--Dariusz Wojcik, Oxford University, UK