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sorry for cross-posting, Since many of you may have read and wondered about the Swiss intiative on Minarets this weekend let me opportunistically point to a book that I recently co-edited which contains an analysis of the conflict by myself. It also contains an analysis of German mosques and prayer rooms and many other cases of travelling building types and forms and analysis. best Michael Re-shaping Cities How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form Michael Guggenheim and Ola Söderström 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. December 2009 |256 pages | Hardback: 978-0-415-49290-4 £85.00| Paperback 978-0-415-49291-1 £29.99 For more information including a table of contents, or to order your copy, please visit www.routledge.com/9780415492911. ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Michael Guggenheim Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität Zürich Andreasstr. 15 CH-8050 Zürich Tel: ++ 41 - 44 - 635 22 23 [log in to unmask] http://www.migug.net