Notes Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Building Types

I start this chapter with a definition of two concepts. By globalisation I refer to ‘a

speeding up in worldwide connectedness in all aspects of contemporary social

life’ (Held et al. 1999: 2). By globality, following Roland Robertson who invented

the term, I refer to ‘the consciousness of the (problem of the) world as a single

place’ or ‘the world as a whole’ (Robertson 1992: 132).