Spatial Transformations : Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces

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This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization, and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increasing interconnectedness, this book asks how spaces are changing as a result of mediatization, increased mobility, globalization, and social dislocation. With attention to questions surrounding the negotiation and (visual) communication of space, it explores the arrangements, spatialities, and materialities that underpin the processes of spatial refiguration by which these changes come about. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from across diverse range disciplines to address questions of socio-spatial transformation, this volume will appeal to sociologists and geographers, as well as scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture.

Angela Million is Professor of Urban Design and Urban Development at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Christian Haid is Senior Researcher at the Habitat Unit, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Ignacio Castillo Ulloa is Research Assistant and Lecturer at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Nina Baur is Professor for Methods of Social Research at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.