Segbers, Klaus

The Making of Global City Regions - Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, Sao Paulo and Shanghai

List of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: Global Politics and the Making of Global City Regions 1 Klaus Segbers 2. City Regions between Their Legacies and the Global Context 27 Johannesburg: (South) Africa's Aspirant Global City 32 Alan Mabin Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 64 Sujata Patel Sao Paulo: The Metropolis of an Elite Society 85 Csaba De and Sueli Schiffer Shanghai: The Evolution of China's Future Global City 113 Weiping Wu 3. Who Runs the City? The "Makers" of Global City Regions 135 Politics of Transformation: Defining the City Strategy in Johannesburg 139 Susan Parnell Formal and Informal Structures of Power in Mumbai 168 Jim Masselos Legitimating Power Structures in Sao Paulo 186 Such Schiffer and Csaba De /TD> From "State-Owned" to "City Inc.": The Case of Shanghai 207 Fulong Wu 4. Contested Future: Discourses and Images in City Regions 233 The Discourse of Governance in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg 237 Robert A. Beauregard and Richard Tomlinson Versions of a Postcolonial Metropolis: Competing Discourses on Bombay's Image 258 Ranjit Hoskote Two Cities in One: Diverse Images of Sao Paulo 279 Pedro Jacobi Shaping Perceptions of Shanghai: Discourses, Images, and Visions 295 Zhongxin Sun 5. Comments by Senior Officials 317 Johannesburg 319 Roland Hunter Mumbai/Bombay 323 Vidyadhar K. Phatak S Paulo 329 Jorge Wilheim Shanghai 335 Zhu Linchu 6. Conclusion: Challenges Ahead for the Southern Contenders 339 Simon Raiser and Krister Volkmann List of Contributors 357 Index 361