financial services, real estate and management consultancy) from locations across the world. The chapters that follow examine ‘global city makers’ within a wide range of industries (e.g. The editors deliver an engaging introduction, presenting the book’s empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of global cities. In doing so, the book makes a significant contribution to leading global city perspectives and is a welcome addition to an emerging field of leadership research examining the role of agency in guiding local and global outcomes. Drawing inspiration from contemporary economic geography debates, the book adopts a relational approach for examining the influence urban agents have on shaping the world economy. Challenging the idea of the dominant state and its primary role in forming urban outcomes, the book’s main focus is on the power of agency, practices and strategies of the urban actors who manage, coordinate and mediate global capital flows. Supporting this claim, in Global City Makers a novel approach to understanding cities is offered through its examination of the way that global cities are made. This is owed to the importance of cities as the centres of global production and consumption, and as the key drivers of the global economy. In an era of globalisation and rapid urbanisation, the city has become an important unit of analysis for understanding urban systems. In the second edition of the City-REDI Book Club, Dr Charlotte Hoole reviews “ Global City Makers: Economic Actors and Practices in the World City Network” by Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson.
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