Subject(s): Urban policy -- Developing countries -- Privatization -- Developing countries and Globalization -- Social aspects -- Pubic and Private -- Economic restructuring of globalizing cities-local response -- Tertiary illusion: economic polices in Sao paulo in 1990's -- Changes in the institutional setting: the redistribution of property rights -- Property trends and market fluctuations in post-apartheid Johannesburg -- Real estate market in Mumbai -- Property right and real estate in sao paule -- Dual market system in Shanghai -- Deregulation of basic services: private solutions -- World city transformation or neoliberal commodifications -- basic services in Mumbai -- Infrastructure and basic services in Mumbai -- Privatization and decentralization in Shanghai -- Security provision -- Violence, security polices and crime in Johannesburg , Mumbai -- Global demand and local needs -- Urban governance