Re-shaping Cities

<p>This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions. The book shows how types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums are imported, adapted and contested in different societies and how urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere.</p><p>Written by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds –architecture, anthropology, geography, linguistics, science studies and sociology – the book draws its inspiration from a series of different approaches and offers both original theoretical reflection and carefully crafted case-studies.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Travelling Cities</strong> 1. Introduction: Mobility and the Transformation of Built Form 2. Notes Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Building Types <strong>Part 2: Mediations and Mediators</strong> 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 <em> </em><strong>Part 3: Circulating Types</strong> 5. Factories, Office Suites, Defunct and Marginal Spaces: Mosques in Stuttgart, Germany<em> </em>6. DakshinaChitra: Translating the Open-Air Museum in Southern India<em> </em>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 <em> </em>8. International Models, Regional Politics and the Architecture of Psychiatric Institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy <strong>Part 4: Shaping Places</strong> 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</p>