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In this lesson by LaSUR, the essentially urban nature of the research context forces students to
acquire - if he or she has not already done so through earlier studies in the field of urban
research (town planning, architecture, urban sociology and anthropology, environmental science,
civil engineering, etc.) – a certain familiarity with "the urban question".
Urban studies is by definition a paradoxical site of pluridisciplinary scientific research,
and long architecture or town planning studies will not necessarily have made you familiar
enough with its complexites. A feeling for the
- dynamics of social and spatial production in urban areas, for the
- macro- and micro-social changes in cities, for its
- unpredictability and for the
- occasionally chaotic movements of its organisations
can be a better basis for studying urban questions in an unsettled environment than the knowledge
that comes from over-confidence in planning and plans, or even from too much theoretical knowledge.
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