Spatial Transformations

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.

1. Navigating Spatial Transformations Through the Refiguration of Spaces Part I: Spatiality and Temporality 2. The Refiguration of Space, Circulation, and Mobility 3. Spatial Occupation—Destruction—Virtualization: Types, Categories, and Processes of a Crucial Factor in Social Life 4. The Historicity of the Refiguration of Spaces Under the Scrutiny of Pre-COVID São Paulo Homeless Pedestrians 5. Spatiotemporal Entanglements: Insights From History 6. Slow Movement on the Slope: On Architecture Principe’s Theory of the Oblique Function and the Role of Circulation in Architectural and Urban Design Part II: Spatiality, Social Inequality, and the Economy 7. ‘Open Borders’: A Postcolonial Critique 8. The Centrality of Race to Inequality Across the World-System: Old Figurations and New Reconfigurations 9. Spatial Transformations in World-Historical Perspective: Towards Mapping the Space and Time of Wealth Accumulation 10. Infrastructures for Global Production in Ethiopia and Argentina: Commodity Chains and Urban Spatial Transformation 11. Separate Worlds? Explaining the Current Wave of Regional Economic Polarization 12. Spatial Transformations and Spatio-Temporal Coupling: Links Between Everyday Shopping Behaviour and Changes in the Retail Landscape Part III: Digitization and Visualization of Space 13. Network Spillover Effects and the Dyadic Interactions of Virtual, Social, and Spatial 14. Talking to My Community Elsewhere: Bringing Together Networked Public Spheres and the Concept of Translocal Communities 15. Annotating Places: A Critical Assessment of Two Hypotheses on How Locative Media Transform Urban Public Places 16. Representational and Animatic Corporeality: Refiguring Bodies and Digitally Mediated Cities 17. Refiguring Spaces: Transformative Aspects of Migration and Tourism Part IV: Imagining, Producing, and Negotiating Space 18: Ontological Security, Globalization, and Geographical Imagination 19. Where We Turn to: Rethinking Networks, Urban Space, and Research Methods 20. Reconfiguring the Spaces of Urban Politics: Circuits, Territories, and Territorialization 21. Appropriating Berlin’s Tempohomes 22. "I Spy with My Little Eye": Children’s Actual Use and Experts’ Intended Design of Public Space