Part I Travelling Cities-- Chapter 1 Introduction: Mobility and the Transformation of Built Form-- Chapter 2 Notes Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Building Types-- Part II Mediations and Mediators-- Chapter 3 Travelling Types and the Law: Minarets, Caravans and Suicide Hospices-- Chapter 4 The High-rise Office Tower as a Global 'Type': Exploring the Architectural World of Getty Images and Co-- Part III Circulating Types-- Chapter 5 Factories, Office Suites, Defunct and Marginal Spaces: Mosques in Stuttgart, Germany-- Chapter 6 Dakshina Chitra: Translating the Open-air Museum in Southern India-- Chapter 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-- Chapter 8 International Models, Regional Politics and the Architecture of Psychiatric Institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy-- Part IV Shaping Places-- Chapter 9 Trajectories of Language: Orders of Indexical Meaning in Washington, DC's Chinatown-- Chapter 10 Forms and Flows in the Contemporary Transformations of Palermo's City Centre-- Chapter 11 Building Stone in Manchester: Networks of Materiality, Circulating Matter and the Ongoing Constitution of the City-- Chapter 12 Conclusion - Seeing Through: Types and the Making and Unmaking of the World-- Index.