Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity (Architext)

‘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

‘This outstanding volume by Anthony King is empirically rich and sends deep theoretical tremors as well; an invaluable read.’ – Jan Nederveen Pieterse, author of Globalization or Empire, Routledge 2004

‘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.’ – Environment and Planning A

‘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.’‘The empirical material in this book is excellent.’ ‘This is architectural history at its best.’ – Rob Shields, Building Research and Information, 2005

‘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

‘…an excellent book that maps the multifaceted ways in which the built environment is influenced by transnational processes in general and a good overview of the research of one of its most important students in particular’ – International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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.