The ‘New Urban Science’: towards the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary pursuit of sustainable transformations

Abstract

Highlights The New Urban Science leverages digital tools and techniques to develop new knowledge that can inform urban development processes. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches are critical to expanding and enhancing digital modes of urban scientific knowledge production. An expansive approach to the New Urban Science can be used to develop urban transformative capacity by fostering communities of learning to leverage the commonalities and differences between and within cities.

Keywords

• New Urban Science
• Interdisciplinary
• Transdisciplinary
• Urban transformative capacity