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Re-Shaping Cities

How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form

Re-Shaping Cities( )
Editor: Guggenheim, Michael
Söderström, Ola
Series title:Architext Ser.
ISBN:978-0-203-86407-4
Publication Date:Dec 2009
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Group
Imprint:Routledge
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $56.95USD $220.00USD $220.00
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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,...
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