Global City Makers

Edited by Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson

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Abstract: Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research. Focusing on financial services, management consultancy, real estate, commodity trading and maritime industries, the detailed studies in this volume are located across the globe to incorporate major world cities such as London, New York and Tokyo as well as globalizing cities including Mexico City, Hamburg and Mumbai.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
ISBN: 9781785368943
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Agency and practice in the making of global cities: towards a renewed research agenda , pp 5-22

Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson

Ch 2 Producer service firms as global city makers: the cases of Mexico City and Hamburg , pp 23-40

Christof Parnreiter

Ch 3 Commodity traders as agents of economic globalization , pp 41-59

Wouter Jacobs

Ch 4 Real estate and global capital networks: drilling into the City of London , pp 60-82

Colin Lizieri and Daniel Mekic

Ch 5 Global cities, local practices: intermediation in the commercial real estate markets of New York City and London , pp 83-105

David Scofield

Ch 6 The making of transnational urban space: financial professionals in the global city Tokyo , pp 106-123

Sakura Yamamura

Ch 7 The making of Mumbai as a global city: investigating the role of the offshore services sector , pp 124-150

Bart Lambregts, Jana Kleibert and Niels Beerepoot

Ch 8 Focal firms, grand coalitions or global city makers? Globalization vs. new localism in Hamburg’s maritime network , pp 151-169

Markus Hesse

Ch 9 Chasing the phantom of a ‘global endgame’: the role of management consultancy in the narratives of pre-failure ABN AMRO , pp 170-191

Michiel van Meeteren and David Bassens

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