Re-shaping Cities : How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form (Paperback)

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