Formas de conocimiento e intervención en la ciudad: notas para una reflexión teórica.

• Main Author: Luis Mauricio Cuervo González.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2001-10-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/486/1.php

This article proposes general criteria to redefine the city as object of scientific knowledge. Traditional strategy has atomized city study on a myriad of specialized approaches, evading an integral view of its nature and its dynamics. On these notes we proposed an inverse procedure: to define the city as a scientific object with its own characteristics and peculiarities, structured on the basis of a provisional definition of a specific theoretical field, the socio-spatial. The development of this theoretical field has an additional requisite, to use scientific principies proposed by the complexity theory.