Knowledge and interdisciplinarity as socio-cultural uncertainties

Abstract

The author is Professor of Sociology at the National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece. He is also a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). This paper is based on the ideas presented by the author as the 2001 C.A. Doxiadis Lecture - first in a series of such lectures established by the WSE - on 24 October, 2001, just prior to the Symposion on "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century" organized by the Society at the Science Center Berlin, 25-28 October, 2001.