The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical exploration of liberalism.Liberalism is often problematized in contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification, environmental problems and inequality.

1. Introduction.- 2. Before It Really Starts.-3. Of Differentiations and Contextualizations.- 4. Current Social and Spatial Developments.- 5. The Return of the Utopian and the Restrictions of Landscape.- 6. Contours of a Handling of Space from the Perspective of a Liberalism That Maximizes Life-Chances- 7. Summary.

This book ​explores the importance of freedom and liberalism in the context of socialities, individualities and materialities. The authors provide a highly unusual and innovative blending of concepts about space and landscape through a deeply theoretical exploration of liberalism.Liberalism is often problematized in contemporary discussions with regard to gentrification, environmental problems and inequality. In contrast, this book refers to a liberalism that maximizes life chances in the context of dealing with spaces. A connection between freedom and space, based on liberal ideas, provides a much needed theoretical intervention in the fields of social and spatial sciences. Olaf Kühne is Professor of Geography at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. Karsten Berr is  Scientific Employee at Eberhard Karls University ofTübingen, GermanyCorinna Jenal is Research Assistant and Academic Councillor of Geography at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, GermanyKai Schuster is Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. 

Establishes a new reference to liberalism that goes beyond known economic and social connotations Utlises the life chances approach and the conflict theory of Ralf Dahrendorf and Karl Popper's Three Worlds Theory Analyses the extent to which 'liberty' can assert itself in the context of socio-political complexity

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