CONTENTS Contributors vii Part 1: Travelling Cities 1 1Introduction: Mobility and the Transformation of Built Form 3 Michael Guggenheim and Ola Soderstrom 2 Notes Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Building Types 21 Anthony D. King Part II: Mediations and Mediators 43 3 Travelling Types and the Law: Minarets, Caravans and Suicide Hospices 45 Michael Guggenheim 4 The High-rise Office Tower as a Global Type : Exploring the Architectural World of Getty Images and Co 63 Monika Grubbauer Part III: Circulating Types 81 5 Factories, Office Suites, Defunct and Marginal Spaces : Mosques in Stuttgart, Germany 83 Petra Kuppinger 6 DakshinaChitra: Translating the Open-air Museum in Southern India 101 Mary Hancock 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 123 Jiat-Hwee Chang 8 International Models, Regional Politics and the Architecture of Psychiatric Institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 143 Leslie Topp Part IV: Shaping Places 165 9 Trajectories of Language: Orders of Indexical Meaning in Washington, DC's Chinatown 167 Jennifer Leeman and Gabriella Modan 10 Forms and Flows in the Contemporary Transformations of Palermo's City Centre 189 0la Soderstrom 11 Building Stone in Manchester: Networks of Materiality, Circulating Matter and the Ongoing Constitution of the City 211 Tim Edensor 12 Conclusion - Seeing Through: Types and the Making and Unmaking of the World 231 Lynda H. Schneekloth Index 247