David McDonald is Director of Global Development Studies and Associate Professor of Geography at Queen's University, Canada. He is the editor or co-editor of The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa; Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa; Environmental Justice in South Africa; Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa; Destinations Unknown: Perspectives on the Brain Drain in Southern Africa; The Legacies of Julius Nyerere: Influences on Development Discourse and Practice in Africa; and On Borders: Perspectives on International Migration in Southern Africa.

This book examines the significance of Cape Town's claim to being a "world city." McDonald argues that Cape Town must be seen as a neoliberal city, situating it against the broader political and economic reforms of South Africa's re-entry into a global market economy.

Introduction: World City Syndrome 1. Cape Town as World City 2. Cape Town as Capitalist City 3. Cape Town as Neoliberal City 4. Respatializing Cape Town (I): Local Government Restructuring 5. Respatializing Cape Town (II): Investments in the Built Environment 6. Privatizing Cape Town 7. Cost Recovering Cape Town 8. Disciplining Cape Town 9. (De)Africanizing Cape Town 10. Keep Left for Cape Town: Alternative Development Strategies