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The focus of the Chair of Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space is on the complex interrelationships between society and (urban) space. In this context, (urban) space that is built and planned is considered both as a social product and a means of social reproduction. (Urban) space is shaped and negotiated by various human actors and, in turn, it reshapes human identities and behaviors, enables and constrains social action and interaction.

Working Area(s)

The department's work focuses on the temporality and spatiality of the city, urban heritage and heritage industries, the city and tourism, social and spatial inequalities in the city, mobility(s), smart cities, interim uses, housing in transition, postcolonial spaces, and the city and soccer.

Research Associations

Research Training Group “Critical infrastructures: construction, functional crises and protection in cities” (KRITIS)

KRITIS is an interdisciplinary research training group dedicated to the study of critical infrastructures in cities. It has been in operation since October 2016 and is currently in its second funding phase, which will last until 2025. Here, historians, infrastructure and spatial planners, civil engineers, sociologists, electrical engineers, philosophers, political scientists, architects and computer scientists conduct research together. At the moment, the second cohort is working on their PhD theses.

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Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” (TraCe)

The Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" (TraCe) is an interdisciplinary research network of five Hessian research Institutions: The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt.

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