A new research area for intricate landscape of cities: Paradisciplinarity

Nowadays, cities and disciplines become intricate. The concept of intricacy*, includes the model of connections of different elements that combined without resolving within each other. While these elements protects their main focuses, they should adopt and transform due to the relations which have been built. Each and every relation within architectural/urban studies should be evaluated as a skein without tyring to be separated. When the architectural/urban studies become intricate, the concepts and comprehansions become insuffiecient. This insufficiency, within this research, examined through three headings: city, discipline and technological developments. Through the examination of the relations, Michel Faucault's four similitudes which are convenientia, aemulatio, analogy and sympathies, have been used in order to comprehand this skein. Afterwards, the historical process has been discussed under the relative periods that includes disciplinary relations. They are Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity and Post-Modernity. As a part of disciplinary relations, the separation of design disciplines during Modernity caused several problems such as becoming intricate, impossible to comprehand and started to create its own concepts such as in Post- Modernity. Within this research, todays' conditions and concepts such as inter-, multi-, cross-, trans- disciplinarity are insuffiecient while understanding the knowledge within architectural/urban studies, paradisciplinarity will be discussed as a new approach. Due to the examination of the concepts mentioned above related with the disciplinarity, there is a tendecy towards one individual can manage all with the help of technological developments and the easy accessibility of the knowledge. Last but not least, the intellectual position of professionals required looking through different aspects, relating concepts over and over again and re-evaluating the definitions of professions.