ABSTRACT
However, regarding the particular content of a knowledge order, there are no law-like explanations of how a knowledge order evolves in (cor-)relation to the effects of contextual structures. Instead, explanations have to be sought by focusing on ‘generalised interdependencies’ (Mayntz 2002b, 25) of actors involved in interaction. More precisely, the concrete manifestation of these mechanisms of discursive practice should be examined. In general terms, this is about the communication of actors in a given context (city) through which they try to detect and define their challenges and to make sense of what constrains their action and seek to develop an understanding of what they can achieve and how they can do it. All of these points are aspects of knowledge.
