The chapter includes identification of the need for reconceptualization of architectural and urbanistic discourse in higher education and the definition of the transdisciplinary methodology for a sustainable development of the living environment. Architecture and urbanism as complex disciplines that start from the existential social needs and reach to the most complex challenges and aspirations...

The archaeology of pre-Columbian polities in the Amazon River basin forces a reconsideration of early urbanism and long-term change in tropical forest landscapes. We describe settlement and land-use patterns of complex societies on the eve of European contact (after 1492) in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon. These societies were organized in articulated clusters, representing smal...

Urbanism potential powers embrace significant opportunities to reach urban sustainability. Investigating and power/force explanation of urbanism have not been clarified in previous studies. Thus, the research is arguing concept power by comparing contrasting bipolar concept, differences, relations intersections. Previous related studies adopted indicate urbanism, a case study analysis provided,...

In understanding change, history provides the only study material available. A standard challenge in urban research is, however, to overcome more or less trivial empiric renderings in favour of theoretically based conceptualisations. In the following, some effort is made to employ concepts that would encompass spatial as well as social processes, and address current problems of urban developmen...