Global city makers : economic actors and practices in the world city network

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.