Overview

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become adapted to local conditions.

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Author:   Michael Guggenheim (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ,  Ola Söderström (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415492911

ISBN 10:   0415492912
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   25 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Travelling Cities 1. Introduction: Mobility and the Transformation of Built Form 2. Notes Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Building Types Part 2: Mediations and Mediators 3. Travelling Types and the Law: Minarets, Caravans and Suicide Hospices 4. The High-Rise Office Tower as a Global 'Type': Exploring the Architectural World of Getty Images Part 3: Circulating Types 5. Factories, Office Suites, Defunct and Marginal Spaces: Mosques in Stuttgart, Germany 6. DakshinaChitra: Translating the Open-Air Museum in Southern India 7. Tropicalising Technologies of Environment and Government: The Singapore General Hospital and the Circulation of the Pavilion Plan Hospital in the British Empire, 1860-1930 8. International Models, Regional Politics and the Architecture of Psychiatric Institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Part 4: Shaping Places 9. Trajectories of Language: Orders of Indexical Meaning in Washington, DC’s Chinatown 10. Forms and Flows in the Contemporary Transformations of Palermo's City Centre 11. Building Stone in Manchester: Networks of Materiality, Circulating Matter and the Ongoing Constitution of the City 12. Conclusion: Seeing Through: Types and the Making and Unmaking of the World

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Re-shaping Cities is a book that is very well plugged into current debates in the literature [and] provides an empirically rich, geographically diverse and historically aware study of a mobile urban - Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Re-shaping Cities is a book that is very well plugged into current debates in the literature [and] provides an empirically rich, geographically diverse and historically aware study of a mobile urban - Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

""Re-shaping Cities is a book that is very well plugged into current debates in the literature [and] provides an empirically rich, geographically diverse and historically aware study of a mobile urban"" – Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

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University of Zurich, Switzerland University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

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