Global city makers : economic actors and practices in the world city network /: economic actors and practices in the world city network. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter, Allan Watson.
• Editors: Hoyler, Michael; Watson, Allan; Parnreiter, Christof
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 307.76; Cities and towns; Urban economics; Globalization; Financial services industry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785368950
• Related ISBNs: 9781785368943
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