Choranomy: A proposal for an integrating of such sciences as have a bearing on territory

Abstract

The paper suggests that at present within scientific disciplinary thinking there is a lack of a discipline that would embrace territorial space seen as a physical and social whole within the scope of its methodological analyses and considerations. A stab is made at an identification of such disciplines that have spatio-territorial phenomena as their object, these being held to be Geography, Urbanism and Ecology. A study is then made of their internal linkages, their differences and similarities, which leads to a seeing of the overlappings in their disciplinary fields as being grounds sufficient for them to be considered as being complementary. A merging of such knowledge and viewpoints is then proposed within a broader discipline that would both embrace and unify within a scientific synthesis such space as might be held to be ecologically, geographically or politically vital. Choranomy, as a basic science, would answer to such a process. Following on from here, those disciplines that would make their contribution to Applied Choranomy are analyzed (Economics, Law, Geometry), this leading to the conclusion that both overall and sectorial choranomic planning (regional and town planning) would be here no more than techniques and the plans carried through under the aegis of either but products and elaborated services. A new way of seeing space in an overall way is thus here seen as arising from a needful merging of interdisciplinary knowledge and efforts that would thus void any further partial or vainly contrasted endeavour by making one such a conceptual universe.