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program “Offensive for the development of scientific and economic excellence (LOEWE) “. In methodically structured comparative studies, the research project analysed the fundamental structures of cities in Europe and Brazil, their similarities, differences, and relationships. The intrinsic-logic approach differs from most other methodologies in urban research studies, which do research in cities but fail to account for the structures shaping the city under investigation, assuming it to be a given fact that requires no further examination. By exploring the intrinsic logic of cities, however, the city becomes a research object in its own right.
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is that alongside the traditional spatial figure of territorial space, multiple competing spatial figures are now impacting the new spatial order and communicative actions. The observable pluralization of (often conflicting) spatial figures has far-reaching consequences for sociality and social cohesion; on the individual level it is often experienced as a general sense of being overwhelmed and losing control. Together with Jörg
Stollmann, she is currently leading the research project ‘Smart People: Queer Everyday Life in Digitalized Spaces’, as part of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1265 in Berlin.
165:, Martina Löw is internationally recognized as an urban research expert known for having developed a fresh approach to the analysis of the intrinsic logic of cities. This new concept captures a complex, dynamic array of forms of knowledge and expressions that are structurally related, based on rule-governed, routinized forms of (inter)action stabilized through various resources, which contribute to cities condensing into characteristic “provinces of meaning”.
161:, Löw is widely known for a new approach to analyzing the “intrinsic logic of cities”. This logic implies a complex ensemble of knowledge stocks, means of expressions, and manifestations, which are intrinsically related and based on rule-governed, routinized forms of actions stabilized by specific resources. This line of argument implies that, over time, cities condense into distinct provinces of meaning. In the field of
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space as a relational arrangement of social goods and living beings produced by an operation of synthesis and placement of these elements. Space conceived as an ongoing, dynamic process contrasts with the traditional view that space is a static (pre-existing) background to the social processes under study, which had previously prevailed in sociology.
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In 2001, Martina Löw published the study
Soziologie des Raums, a major contribution to a previously neglected area of sociology. The book translated into many different languages addressed the complex ways in which spaces are socially constructed and in turn structure everyday life. Löw understands
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In 2008 – 2013, Löw was director of the collaborative project „Intrinsic Logic of Cities “, a joint research venture of the
Technische Universität Darmstadt and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, sponsored by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts as part of the
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2019 Social and
Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality: The Refiguration of Spaces as Today’s Challenge for Cities. In: M. Smagacz-Poziemska u.a. (ed.): Inequality and Uncertainty. Current Challenges for Cities. London: Palgrave Macmillan,
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2015 Managing the urban commons: Public interest and the representation of interconnectedness In: Christian Borch und Martin
Kornberger (ed.), Urban Commons: Rethinking the City, Routledge, p. 109-126.
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2021 Space. Urban, Rural, Territorial. In: B. Hollstein, R. Greshoff, U. Schimank, A. Weiß (ed.), Sociology in the German
Speaking World. Special Issue Soziologische Revue, p. 499-514.
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2021 Comparison, Refiguration, and
Multiple Spatialities (with Knoblauch, H.). In: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 22(3). Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 1-17,
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2022 Fabrication of Space: The Design of
Everyday Life in South Korean Songdo (with Bartmanski, D.; Kim, S.; Löw, M.; Pape, T.; & Stollmann, J.):. In: Urban Studies. online first
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2008 The
Constitution of Space: The Structuration of Spaces Through the Simultaneity of Effects and Perception. In: European Journal of Social Theory 1, 11.
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2013 The City as Experiential Space: The Production of Shared Meaning, in: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Vol. 37/3, p. 894-908.
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2020 The Spatial Refiguration of Society and the Interaction Orders (with Knoblauch, H.). In: Space and Culture, Vol. 23 (3): 221–225.
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2022 Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces (with Christmann, G. and Knoblauch, H.). London: Routledge.
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