Re-Shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form

ISBN-13: 9780415492911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

Guggenheim Michael; Ola Soderstrom

Opis

This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become 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.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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