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

By Michael Guggenheim (ed.) , Ola Söderström (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
0415492904, 9780415492904
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5071220 bytes)
Series
Architext
Edition
1
Pages
264\263
Time added
2016-09-28 06:52:03
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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.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.

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