Architecture and urban space play an important role among the sociological and psychological factors that influence humans and their well-being. Sociology and psychology analyse the role of architecture in the conscious shaping of urban space in the 21 century. This issue is very important from the point of view of sustainable development, as well as education of civil engineering graduates and...

I dentifying critical issues confronting an urban sociology of the twenty-first century entails a decision and a judgment, both in turn inevitably derived from an interpretation of history in the making. The enterprise is, thus, partial and positioned. Developing analytical and empirical elements (and I emphasize elements) for an urban sociology focused on the early twenty-first century does no...

Elizabeth Churchill is an applied cognitive psychologist with interests in science and technology studies, sociology and anthropology. She is a Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, designing technologies for mediated communication. Thomas Erickson is an interaction designer with interests in rhetoric, sociology and architecture and urban design; he is a...