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...

Situating global advertising agencies and cities -- Introduction -- The global advertising agency -- Cities and the grounding of global advertising work -- Geographies of advertising work in the twenty first century -- Cities and advertising globalization: New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit in a...