Transdisciplinary Research as a Platform for Sustainable Urban Regeneration

The concept of sustainable urban regeneration is a central issue in contemporary global frameworks. This chapter provides a contribution towards demonstrating the complexity of sustainable urban regeneration in the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the spatial–physical aspect. The aim is an essential implementation of the theoretical transdisciplinary discourse into practice of the regeneration of urban areas. Previous theoretical transdisciplinary orientation is in practice dominantly implemented in disciplinary framework. With the transformation of conventional disciplinary methodologies into a universal transdisciplinary research platform, we can respond to the complex sustainability issues that contemporary urban practice is facing. Integrated research of spatial determinants released from disciplinary autonomy articulates new energy, ready to face the challenges posed by contemporary global processes. Challenges in implementing transdisciplinary practices are varied and complex, but also insufficiently resistant to oppose transdisciplinary research action built on a platform of integrated knowledge. This section seeks to point out also that architecture and urbanism have an underdeveloped transdisciplinary research platform, even though these are by nature multidisciplinary activities and suitable for the development of transdisciplinary research practice.