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The amount of social science literature produced over the past several decades on city regions of the south has indeed been rather sparse in comparison to the scholarship concerning the global cities of the north, as the editors of this recent collection suggest. The Making of Global City Regions, edited by Klaus Segbers, with the assistance of Simon Raiser and Krister Volkmann, seeks to fill this scholarly void and also place the recent developments and challenges of Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, São Paulo and Shanghai within the new context of global politics. According to Segbers' introductory essay in the first chapter, the primary focus of this study is to determine how relevant actors in the four city regions continue to construct development policies that will both meet the demands and challenges of globalization and elevate its status to a global city region. Another overarching goal of this project is to comprehend how the leaders and city region elites have coped with globalization and the devolution of the state. Moreover, the regional elite in each city region have needed to cultivate and promote policies that will make their city's...