Spaces of Global Cultures

Anthony D. King is Bartle Professor of Art History and of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of Califonia Berkeley and, for five years, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

'King's importance in shaping the way we understand globalization as an unequal and uneven system not only of economic but of material and cultural processes cannot be understated.' - Rob Shields, Building Research and Information, 2005'This is architectural history at its best.' - Rob Shields, Building Research and Information, 2005'The empirical material in this book is excellent.' - Rob Shields, Building Research and Information, 2005'Proof of the reflection of the "time-space" compression (in the way Harvey names) on our cultural and intellectual reading of the contemporary and "homogenized" world.' - METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture'The book is very interdisciplinary—and inherently geographical ... It is sensitive to political and cultural context and highlights the various hegemonies at play in architecture.' - Loretta Lees, Environment and Planning A, volume 38'King provides an accessible and significant contribution to the literature on how transnational and global identities play out within the built environment ... it will be of considerable interest to a range of courses, from architecture and planning history to the sociology and geography of consumption.' - Journal of Consumer Culture

• Introduction. Part I: Theories 1. Worlds in the City: Wonders of Modern Design to Weapons of Mass Destruction 2. Interrogating Global Culture(s) 3. Cultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges 4. The Times and Spaces of Modernities 5. Writing Transnational Planning Histories: The Dialectics of Dual Development Part II: Histories 6. Suburb/Ethnoburb/Globurb: The Making of Contemporary Modernities 7. Villafication: The Transformation of Chinese Cities 8. Imagining the World at Home: The Distant Spaces of the Indian City 9. Transnational Delhi Revisited: The Spatial Language of Three Modernities 10. Imperialism, Colonialism and Architects of the Arts and Crafts in Britain Part III: Pasts/Presents/Futures 11. Ways of Seeing: Serendipity, Visuality, Experience