“…In large part owing to Roy and Ong's () seminal collection on the topic, urban geographers have recently engaged in debates that challenge essentializing accounts of ‘global cities’ (Simone, ; Roy and Ong, ; Roy, ; ; McCann et al , ; Acuto, ; Binnie, ; Baker and Ruming, ). Worlding, according to Roy and Ong (: xv), creates the conditions of possibility for a ‘diversity of urban dreams, projects, and practices that are constitutive of cities in emerging world regions’.…”