Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces

Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the means by which communicative action brings about the social construction and re-construction of urban spaces, presenting new theoretical foundations for conceptualising these transformations.

Gabriela Christmann is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin and Head of the Research Department 'Dynamics of Communication, Knowledge and Spatial Development' at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany.
Hubert Knoblauch is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the author of PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society, the co-author of Videography: Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations, and the co-editor of Social Constructivism as Paradigm? and Culture, Communication, and Creativity: Reframing the Relations of Media, Knowledge, and Innovation in Society.
Martina Löw is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She is the author of The Sociology of Space and co-editor of Spatial Sociology: Relational Space after the Turn.