@phdthesis{Torreiter,
  author    = {Torreiter, Laura},
  title     = {St{\"a}dtebauliche Aufwertung im Leipziger Osten: Migrant:innen als Pioniere beim Erwerb und der Sanierung von Baudenkmalen},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.6408},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230717-64081},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {209},
  abstract  = {Anhand der st{\"a}dtebaulichen und sozialen Transformation des {\"o}stlichen Gr{\"u}nderzeitgebietes von Leipzig wird die Rolle von migrantischen Hausbesitzenden und in der Bausanierung T{\"a}tigen im Aufwertungsprozess untersucht. Der Zugang zum Gegenstand verbindet Fragen der Stadtsoziologie und der Denkmalforschung. Im sozialen Feld der Stadterneuerung wird die Revitalisierung des ehemals von Leerstand und R{\"u}ckbau betroffenen Baubestandes ausgehandelt. Die Positionen der Akteur:innen im Feld werden durch ihre Ausstattung mit {\"o}konomischem, aber auch sozialem und kulturellem Kapital bestimmt. Angeh{\"o}rige der Planungs- und Denkmalbeh{\"o}rden verf{\"u}gen {\"u}ber institutionalisiertes Kulturkapital und stehen damit Kleineigent{\"u}mer:innen, h{\"a}ufig Autodidakt:innen, gegen{\"u}ber. Baudenkmale k{\"o}nnen {\"u}ber ihre Funktion als Geldanlage und Wohnraum hinaus Status repr{\"a}sentieren und symbolisch angeeignet werden. Denkmalschutz dient dem {\"o}ffentlichen Interesse am Erhalt historischer Bausubstanz. Bei Sanierungen bestehen die Herausforderungen der Vereinbarkeit von Konservierung und Modernisierung, der Finanzierbarkeit f{\"u}r Eigent{\"u}mer:innen und der Sozialvertr{\"a}glichkeit f{\"u}r Bewohnende. Eine Darstellung der historischen Entwicklung des Leipziger Ostens zu Beginn der Analyse veranschaulicht die Abh{\"a}ngigkeit kultureller, sozialer und {\"o}konomischer Werte des Baubestandes vom jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Kontext. Planerische Konzepte f{\"u}r das Gebiet zeigen, dass eine sozio{\"o}konomische Stabilisierung und Imageverbesserung erreicht werden sollte durch das Aufgreifen von Potentialen, wie den denkmalgesch{\"u}tzten Bauten, dem zuziehenden alternativen Milieu und migrantischer {\"O}konomie. Es wird deutlich, dass nach einer initialen Ans{\"a}ssigkeit von Pionier:innen die {\"o}ffentlichen Infrastrukturmaßnahmen und Denkmalausweisungen eine Inwertsetzung v. a. durch externe Anlegende vorbereiteten. Darauf aufbauend wurden anhand einer qualitativen Befragung die Erfahrungen von st{\"a}dtischen Mitarbeitenden, Fachleuten und im Quartier Engagierten denen von lokalen migrantischen Hausbesitzenden und im Bereich Sanierung T{\"a}tigen gegen{\"u}bergestellt. Migrant:innengruppen haben den Stadtraum in einer Phase vorherrschender Abwanderung durch die Er{\"o}ffnung von Gesch{\"a}ften und Institutionen sowie den Erwerb von Immobilien f{\"u}r sich erschlossen. Strukturelle Benachteiligungen, wie Diskriminierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, ihre Ans{\"a}ssigkeit im sozial stigmatisierten Gebiet sowie geringes {\"o}konomisches Kapital versuchten sie durch den Einsatz von sozialem Kapital auszugleichen. Sanierungen erfolgten mit hoher Eigenleistung und R{\"u}ckgriff auf private Netzwerke. Die Analyse des Erneuerungsprozesses im Leipziger Osten zeigt, dass in einer initialen Phase Pionier:innen von Planenden und der Denkmalpflege als essentiell f{\"u}r die Entwicklung angesehen wurden. G{\"u}nstige Instandsetzungen durch Kleineigent{\"u}mer:innen wurden akzeptiert, um Geb{\"a}ude vor weiterem Verfall zu bewahren. Mit der zunehmenden Forderung nach Verwendung hochwertiger Materialen werden die Sanierungsleistungen nach {\"a}sthetischen und letztlich {\"o}konomischen Kriterien bewertet. Gegen{\"u}ber sozialen Folgen einer Aufwertung von Bausubstanz l{\"a}sst sich eine unkritische Haltung der Denkmalpflege erkennen. Bei der Vermarktung der Best{\"a}nde durch professionelle Investierende findet die Sozialgeschichte des Stadtteils wenig Ber{\"u}cksichtigung, positiv besetzte Merkmale des Quartiers, wie Multikulturalit{\"a}t werden selektiv aufgegriffen. Der Anteil migrantischer Akteur:innen an der Entwicklung wird durch die {\"O}ffentlichkeit unzureichend anerkannt. Auch die Wertsch{\"a}tzung von Planenden und im Quartier Engagierten erfolgt v. a. anhand des {\"o}konomischen Status. Hohe Erwartungen an die Gesch{\"a}ftsstruktur und die Erscheinung des Straßenbildes k{\"o}nnen nicht erf{\"u}llt werden. Migrantische Hausbesitzende und im Bereich Sanierung T{\"a}tige ben{\"o}tigen f{\"u}r die Auseinandersetzung mit der Denkmalpflege kulturelles Kapital. Sie erkennen die Bedeutung des historischen Baubestandes f{\"u}r die Stadt und die Arbeit der Institution an, kritisieren jedoch Sanierungsauflagen bzw. Mitarbeitende der Denkmalpflege und k{\"o}nnen sich z. T. gegen diese behaupten. Lokale migrantische Kleineigent{\"u}mer:innen leisten durch ihre Quartiersbindung einen Beitrag zur {\"o}konomischen und sozialen Stabilisierung. Mit ihrer Aufstiegsorientierung f{\"o}rdern sie in der Vermietungspraxis jedoch nur bedingt die Integration anderer Migrant:innen und grenzen sich von statusniedrigen Gruppen im Quartier ab. Migrantische Hausbesitzende und Unternehmende nehmen sich selbst als erfolgreiche Vorreitende in einer heterogener werdenden ostdeutschen Stadtgesellschaft wahr. Sie erkannten fr{\"u}hzeitig das Entwicklungspotential und geh{\"o}ren zu den Initiierenden und Profitierenden der Inwertsetzung.},
  subject      = {Leipzig},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Sung,
  author    = {Sung, Younkyoung},
  title     = {Cultural Tourism and Social Resilience: Discourse of Historic Cities in East Germany, the Case of Gotha and Eisenach},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4092},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200212-40920},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {This thesis explores how cultural heritage plays a role in the development of urban identity by engaging both actively and passively with memory, i.e. remembering and forgetting. I argue that architectural heritage is a medium where specific cultural and social decisions form its way of presentation, and it reflects the values and interests of the period. By the process of remembering and forgetting, the meanings between inhabitant and object in urban environment are practiced, and the meanings are created. To enable the research in narrative observation, cultural tourism management is chosen as the main research object, which reflects the alteration of interaction between the architectural heritage and urban identity. Identifying the role of heritage management, the definition of social resilience and the prospects of cultural heritage as a means of social resilience are addressed. Case region of the research is East Ger- many, thereby, the study examines the distinct approaches and objectives regarding heritage management under the different political systems along the German reunification process. The framework is based on various theoretical paradigms to investigate the broad research questions: 1) What is the role of historic urban quarters in the revitalisation of East German towns? 2) How was the transition processed by cultural heritage management? 3) How did policy affect residents' lives? The case study is applied to macro level (city level: Gotha and Eisenach) and micro level study (object level: specific heritage sites), to analyse the performance of selective remembering and making tourist destination through giving significance to specific heritage. By means of site observations, archival research, qualitative inter- views, photographs, and discourse analysis on printed tourism materials, the study demonstrates that certain sites and characteristics of the city enable creating and focusing messages, which aids the social resilience. Combining theory and empirical studies this thesis attempts to widen the academic discussion regarding the practice of remembering and forgetting driven by cultural heritage. The thesis argues for cultural heritage tourism as an element of social resilience and one that embraces the historic and cultural identity of the inhabitants.},
  subject      = {Stadtmarketing},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Sucker,
  author    = {Sucker, Katharina},
  title     = {Communities in discourse and space. Towards a spatial dialectic in gated residential developments},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2346},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150206-23466},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {243},
  abstract  = {This research projects deals with the discoursivity of spatial production. By looking at contemporary residential development in the city of Istanbul, I will examine the reciprocity of the material production of space on one hand, and social discourses on the other, in order to make a contribution to how physical space can be used as a source of research in urban studies. In real estate marketing social discourses are used as a source of reference for place branding or identity design. Branding concepts therefore relate to how social groups imagine their position or future position in society, imaginaries that are continuously influenced and changed by social dynamics within the city but also from the outside. How such urban identities are formed and it what way they relate to the urban environment is crucial to a wide spectrum of social and cultural science. The constitutive role urban space attains has been described and analysed in much detail. Such scrutiny however has yet to be applied to the visual and communicative forms of engagement, the build environment partakes in the formation and change of social discourses.},
  subject      = {Architektur},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Skivko,
  author    = {Skivko, Maria},
  title     = {Fashion in the City and The City in Fashion: Urban Representation in Fashion Magazines},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3726},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20180210-37262},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {This dissertation concerns the changing role of fashion in the context of modern cities. In approaching this process, the research investigates the media discourse based on representations of fashion by cities and of cities by fashion. Moreover, this research focuses on fashion understood as a multidimensional phenomenon that aims to provide an explanation of urban spaces through fashion terms, actions, and garments. Additionally, cities are considered from the cultural geography approach that highlights the cultural component of urban spaces expressed in social and cultural practices in physical reality. Following this idea, it is suggested here that fashion today not only participates in the urban life as its significant component but also creates city images and representations of urban lifestyle through the fashion paradigm. In other words, fashion redefines urban spaces; at the same time, urban spaces are interpreted as a stage for fashion processes. By integrating in social research the fields of urban studies and fashion studies, this dissertation offers the discussion considering the fashion phenomenon not only as an urban phenomenon of modern reality. On the one hand, such discussion concerns the re-conceptualization of urban phenomena by the fashion influence; on the other hand, it relates the re-contextualization of fashion in a city. The empirical focus is based on the media context of fashion magazines in which variety of possibilities to represent fashion and cities lead to promising interpretations and analysis. The idea of representation specifies the ways of constructing the notion of urban space as fashionable space and the notion of fashion as placed in the urban context.},
  subject      = {Stadtentwicklung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Shamskooshki,
  author    = {Shamskooshki, Hanieh},
  title     = {Perception of Socio-Spatial Segregation: The Interaction of Physical and Social Urban Space-Study case of Tehran Neighborhoods},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4466},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210802-44666},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {"How to understand the interaction between urban space and social processes" is a significant question in urban studies. To answer that, the city needs to be recognized as both a physical and a social entity and urban theory and practice need to connect these (Hillier 2007). The present research aims to re-examine the complex correlation between spatial and social inequality manifestations in the city of Tehran regarding the concept of segregation. It observes the causes and consequences of segregation in Tehran and provides an insight into both concepts of socio-spatial segregation and neighborhood effects and creates a link between them. First, I argue when, where, and for whom spatial locations affect the chances of social networks in Tehran. Then, I discuss how neighborhood effects can emerge via social network mechanisms and thus affect the perceptions of residents in the neighborhoods.},
  subject      = {Soziales Netzwerk},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Reshetnikova,
  author    = {Reshetnikova, Tatiana},
  title     = {Transformation of the Environment: Influence of "Urban Reagents." German and Russian Case Studies},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4351},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210128-43517},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {256 (thesis) + 23 (Folder) + 83 (CD)},
  abstract  = {An urban regeneration manifests itself through urban objects operating as change agents. The en-tailed diverse effects on the surroundings demonstrate experimental origin - an experiment as a preplanned but unpredictable method. An understanding of influences and features of urban ob-jects requires scrutiny due to a high potential of the elements to force an alteration and reactions. This dissertation explores the transformation of the milieu and mechanisms of this transformation.},
  subject      = {Stadtentwicklung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{PuentesRivera,
  author    = {Puentes-Rivera, Yomayra},
  title     = {WHISPERS OF MEMORY, MURMURS OF HISTORY ACOUSTIC MONU-MEMORIALS IN PUBLIC SPACES. Exploratory research of strategies used to create acoustic experiences of commemoration, remembrance, mourning and memory},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3932},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190603-39323},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {265},
  abstract  = {This research seeks to make an exploratory study of the strategies used by the creators of monuments, memorials, and commemorative places located in the public spaces that use sound as one of the primary raw material in their design. The term acoustic monu-memorials was coined in this research to encircle these structures and places. In order to achieve the goal of this research, it was necessary to compile a number of samples, primarily after the digital recording era of captured sound around 1971 to the present. The compilation was relevant because such a compendium was not found in the literature, and to the author's knowledge, a comprehensive investigation of the strategies used in planning acoustic monu-memorials in the urban spaces does not exist. The method used to create such compendium was to send a question to people with different background identities, such as visual and sound artists, musicians, art curators, and heritage scholars among others. This question produced a selection of 51 examples of acoustic monu-memorials located in public spaces. Subsequently, the examples were classified into four major categories according to their form and nature. Additionally, two examples from the main categories were chosen as case studies: The Sinti and Roma Memorial in Berlin, Germany and the Niche monument in Cali, Colombia. These study cases were presented, described, and analysed in detail as they represent the type of what could be defined as an acoustic monu-memorial in general. Lynch's (1960) five elements that help individuals build the image of the city were transferred and used as a tool to help to build this image into acoustic terms. A thorough analysis of the acquired data yielded found the strategies used by the designers to shape, modify, transform, and structure public space. These strategies are entitled Sound Spaces. Moreover, a list entitled Urban Acoustic Commemoration Code was compiled. This list of suggestions addresses urban planners, architects, artists, designers, and general public interested in the aspects involved when creating acoustic commemoration phenomena in public spaces.},
  subject      = {Stadtentwicklung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Podlaszewska,
  author    = {Podlaszewska, Rizky Suci Ammalia},
  title     = {The Placemaking of Destination. Localization and Commoditization process of Urban Tourism. Study case Palembang Indonesia},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3699},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20171201-36995},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {This research addresses the discourse of tourism as a tool for place-making of urban destination. Relevant to the study of place-making is the analysis of the commoditization and localization process dependent upon the appropriation of urban landscape and local cultures. In the research, localization is interpreted as the act of determining the attributes of locality, while commoditization is defined as the process by which local attributes that have commercial potential end up in becoming tourism commodity. Following this, the commoditization of intrinsic cultural value is disseminated within a branding strategy and intervention reflecting social and political relations. Therefore, the research suggests that tourism place-making has not only been constructed through the top-down regulatory body, but has been also generated through the attributes of its locality. By utilizing the critical and constructivist paradigm, the research depicts the conditions of the localization and commoditization process in establishing the base line of its realization within the symbolic economy. Thus, a qualitative case study approach was adopted. The study area of this dissertation is Palembang, as one of the capital cities in Indonesia advancing in its overall urban development. To investigate urban tourism as a tool for development strategy, it is useful to investigate the role of tourism which embodies (1) spatial transformation; how tourism gives significant impacts on urban form, and (2) the socio-cultural aspect; how neighbourhood is related to tourism industry. The findings suggest that tourism place-making involves the reciprocity of urban dynamics: cities take on tourism as a reference model of development, and tourist areas adopt the proliferation of cultural lifestyle to meet the industry's demands.},
  subject      = {Urbanistik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Pereyra2022,
  author    = {Pereyra, Ail{\´e}n Suyai},
  title     = {Continuidades, tensiones y rupturas en las pr{\´a}cticas del habitar, en el marco de las transformaciones de barrios 'tradicionales'. El Caso de barrio G{\"u}emes 2000-2016},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4651},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220524-46511},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {263},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {El presente trabajo se inscribe en el campo de los estudios urbanos y plantea como ejes estructurantes la intersección entre las políticas públicas, el barrio y las prácticas del habitar (de Certeau, 1996, 1999; Gravano, 2003) en el marco de las transformaciones del espacio urbano en los barrios pericentrales, también denominados tradicionales de la ciudad de Córdoba, particularmente lo acontecido en Barrio G{\"u}emes, durante el periodo 2010-2016. El propósito del abordaje se inscribe en conocer y realizar aportes generalizables a la comprensión de las prácticas del habitar como unidad de análisis. En ese marco, el problema de investigación se formula en el siguiente interrogante: ?'cómo se modifican las prácticas del habitar en el marco de las transformaciones urbanas, en un modo de producción capitalista? Se entiende a las prácticas como acciones elementales de las "artes de hacer" que las personas ordinarias ponen en marcha en su vida cotidiana: para circular, cocinar, trabajar, vincularse. También, a través de las mismas resignifican los espacios, les otorgan una valoración (positiva o negativa), se identifican como parte de la identidad y a su vez se reconocen lugares de (des)encuentro y vías de circulación. Para su abordaje se toma como unidad de estudio el caso de barrio G{\"u}emes. El recorte espacial (o físico) del trabajo empírico está localizado en la ciudad de Córdoba, y se sitúa en la periferia del área central. Esta localización permite comprender el surgimiento de las primeras expansiones urbanas como consecuencia del crecimiento demográfico y cómo estas, se transformaron en los primeros barrios. El recorte temporal se encuentra delimitado entre los años 2000 y 2016, respaldado intencionalmente por dos acontecimientos significativos: el censo de población (2001) y la celebración del Bicentenario de la Independencia en Argentina. Los cambios materializados en ciertos espacios urbanos, tanto en ciudades latinoamericanas (Buenos Aires, Salvador de Bahía en Brasil, México Distrito Federal, etc.) como en otras partes del mundo (New Orleans en los Estados Unidos, el distrito de Kreuzberg- Friedrichshain en Berlín, el puerto de Hamburgo en Alemania, etc.) demuestran cómo estos espacios se van transformado acorde al modo de reproducción capitalista. Pues, se trataba de espacios que en algún momento cumplieron funciones económicas-sociales jerarquizadas y luego por la dinámica misma del capitalismo, la sobreacumulación, dejan de ser rentables y pasan a ser espacios "obsoletos". En ese sentido, la omisión de acciones públicas y/o privadas, la desatención y el crecimiento de situaciones sociales conflictivas (delitos, inseguridad, degradación) en estos espacios, funciona como argumento para que los gobiernos locales comiencen a planear el futuro y modernizarlos. De esta manera, se plantean políticas urbanas con el objetivo de impulsar acciones de renovación o rehabilitación para dinamizar económicamente determinados sectores. Dos elementos discursivos aparecen como posibilitadores del proceso de renovación urbana: el turismo y el patrimonio. En ese sentido, bajo la recuperación patrimonial de ciertos lugares se dinamizan los territorios, por lo que el turismo se vuelve una herramienta económica que produce un excedente de plusvalía. La puesta en valor de bienes tangibles e intangibles atrae la afluencia de visitantes y, a la vez, es rentable económicamente. Ahora bien, muchas veces los proyectos tienen en cuenta las variables morfológicas y físicas, dejando en un segundo plano el impacto en el espacio próximo y las relaciones entre los habitantes con su territorio. Actualmente los espacios elegidos por los municipios para la intervención pública y/o privada son los barrios, puesto que son espacios cercanos al centro y considerados estratégicos. Por lo general, el argumento es la necesidad de rehabilitar/renovar zonas poco aprovechadas o degradadas con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de la población y dinamizar el sector (Brites, 2017; Guevara, 2012). Desde los 2000 el barrio G{\"u}emes asiste a un proceso de crecimiento inusitado. La cantidad de artesanos se disparó y variedad de productos ofrecidos, emergieron los comercios que forman parte de la oferta comercial, gastronómica y cultural del barrio. Hace varios años, presenta nuevos actores económicos que se pueden observar en la apertura de galerías comerciales; ubicadas sobre el eje de las calles Belgrano, Achával Rodríguez, Fructuoso Rivera y la creciente aparición de edificaciones alrededor de la feria artesanal histórica; con la venta y exposición de piezas del arte plástico, gastronomía, negocios de diseñadores cordobeses y hasta la inclusión de la idea del del "desarrollo sustentable" en los techos de las galerías. La modificación del corpus normativo, la aparición de edificación en altura y el boom económico tuvieron como resultado, la valorización del suelo urbano, la retroalimentación en el espacio con el emplazamiento de nuevas actividades comerciales y servicios culturales. A la par, en el espacio barrial se presentan nuevos residentes con otros hábitos y prácticas que ponen en disputa los modos de habitar en el espacio. A riesgo de simplificar, estas transformaciones fueron producto de los cambios políticoideológicos, de los modelos e instrumentos de gestión urbana puestos en juego en los diversos momentos históricos y de las propias prácticas sociales y culturales de los habitantes. De esta manera, se centrará la mirada analítica en las transformaciones de las prácticas del habitar de los pobladores de los Barrios G{\"u}emes, en el marco de la metamorfosis del espacio urbano (atravesado por tendencias de mediatización y mercantilización de la experiencia) que conjugó un proceso de intersección y asociatividad entre políticas públicas y expansión inmobiliaria.},
  subject      = {Stadtviertel},
  language  = {es}
}
@phdthesis{Motalebi,
  author    = {Motalebi, Mahgol},
  title     = {Immigrant's Home in the Making through Spatial Practice; The Case of Iranians in Berlin},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.6426},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230925-64266},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {237},
  abstract  = {Due to the significant number of immigrants in Europe, especially Germany, integration is an ongoing subject of debate. Since the 1970s, with the emergence of the discussions on 'place,' it has also been realized that the immigrant experience is associated with location. Nevertheless, due to the challenges in capturing the place and migration relevance, there is a gap in understanding the role of the migrant's geography of experiences and its outcomes (Phillips \& Robinson, 2015). This research aims to investigate the extent to which both the process of objective integration and the socio-spatial practices of high-skilled Iranian immigrants in Berlin outline and influence their sense of belonging to Berlin as the new "home." The embedded mixed-method design had employed for this study. The quantitative analysis through Pearson's correlation technique measured the strength of the association between Iranians' settlement distribution and the characteristics of Berlins' districts. The quantitative analysis provides contextual data to get a greater level of understanding of the case study's interaction with place. The units of place intend to demonstrate the case study's presence and possible interaction with places around their settlement location that relatively shapes their perception. The qualitative analysis comprises ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured in-depth interviews with a homogeneous sample of Iranian immigrants in Berlin that provide data on individual and ethnic behaviors and trajectories and analyze the complex interactions between the immigrant's experience and the role of place. This research uncovers that Iranian highly skilled immigrants are successful in integrating objectively; However, in regards to their state of belonging, it illustrated the following: The role of socio-ethnic culture of the case study in denotation of home and belonging; Iranian high-skilled immigrants' efforts towards reaching a level of upward mobility overshadow their attempt to shape social and spatial interaction with Berliners and Berlin itself, which manifests both in their perception and use of urban space; and finally, the identification practice and the boundary-making as an act of reassurance and self-protection against the generalization of adjacent nationalities, demonstrated in the intersection of demographical settlement distribution of Iranians in Berlin and the ethnic diversity, impact the sense of belonging and place-making.},
  subject      = {Migration},
  language  = {en}
}