The Global Turn offers insightful journeys into the complex phenomenon of globalisation as it relates to modern architecture and the city. In this collection of six short essays, educators and historians Michelangelo Sabatino and Tom Avermaete seek answers by analysing a series of global sites, types, and issues, ranging from airports and hotels to construction materials and labour. Addressing spatial, political, and social geographies, they offer anyone who is interested in the built environment a fresh set of architectural perspectives on a phenomenon that gives and takes in equal measure. Learn how the global turn has simultaneously expanded and shrank the world in which we live.