Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and re-construction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualising communication not only in terms of the use of language and texts, but as involving any kind of objectification, such as technologies, bodies and non-verbal signs, it considers the roles of both direct and mediatised (or digitised) communication. An examination of the conceptualisation of the communicative (re-)construction of spaces and the means by which this change might be empirically investigated, this book demonstrates the fruitfulness of the notion of refiguration as a means by which to understand the transformation of contemporary societies. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists and geographers with interests in social construction and urban space"-- Provided by publisher.

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

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