Transdisciplinarity as a Direction for Development of Modern Urban Planning

Abstract

The article is devoted to the development of the principles of disciplinary cooperation in urban planning. The list of disciplines that make up the scientific basis of urban planning has often become the subject of research by domestic authors, but the principle of organizing interactions and ensuring an interdisciplinary hierarchy with existing research is almost not affected. The team of authors has systematized domestic models of organizing disciplinary cooperation in urban planning. The most important stages of the evolution of disciplinary interactions, which by analogy with foreign practice are called "multidisciplinary", "interdisciplinary" and "transdisciplinary", are highlighted.

 The "multidisciplinary" integration model relies on the ability of a city planner to summarize knowledge from various scientific areas. This model assumes an extremely limited number of disciplines and sharply raises the question of the physical possibility of mastering the whole range of knowledge by one specialist. At a later stage this model was improved and the idea of "interdisciplinary" integration became widespread throughout the world, which implies the existence of several profiles in the profession of a city planner. Disciplinary synthesis is realized through the formation of interdisciplinary research, the emergence of new border areas of scientific knowledge.

 The "transdisciplinary" model is identified as the most relevant. Based on the model of "transdisciplinary" interactions, the concept of a modern structure of urban planning has been proposed. The system of town planning knowledge is proposed to be considered as part of the system of universal knowledge, concentrated around a complex heterogeneous object – an artificial habitat. In this case, the boundaries of urban planning knowledge are interpreted as adapting, depending on the conditions of a particular object of urban planning activity. The concept allows to take into account the dynamic nature of the ever-expanding list of scientific disciplines attributed to the system of urban planning knowledge, and also takes into account various forms of activity (participation of residents, public organizations, initiatives of representatives of different levels of government), which in the modern world constitute a significant part of urban planning