Re-shaping cities : how global mobility transforms architecture and urban form / edited by Michael Guggenheim and Ola Söderström.

Title & Author:

Re-shaping cities : how global mobility transforms architecture and urban form / edited by Michael Guggenheim and Ola Söderström.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

viii, 254 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.

Series:

The architext series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1.: Travelling cities -- 1. Introduction : mobility and the transformation of built form -- 2. Notes towards a global historical sociology of building types -- pt. 2.: Mediations and mediators -- 3. Travelling types and the law : minarets, caravans and suicide hospices -- 4. High-rise office tower as a global 'type' : exploring the architectural world of Getty Images and co -- pt. 3.: Circulating types -- 5. Factories, office suites, defunct and marginal spaces : mosques in Stuttgart, Germany -- 6. Dakshina Chitra : 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 -- pt. 4.: Shaping places -- 9. Trajectories of language : orders of indexical meaning in Washington, DC s Chinatown -- 10. Forms and flows in the dontemporary 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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780415492904 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415492904 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415492911 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415492912 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203864074 (ebk.)
0203864077 (ebk.)

Subject:

Architecture and globalization.
Architecture et mondialisation.
Architektur
Globalisierung
Städtebau
Mobilität
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Globalisering.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Guggenheim, Michael.
Söderström, Ola.
Architext series.

How global mobility transforms architecture and urban form

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275275
Call No.: BIB 209360
Status: Available

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