This doctoral research aims to study the logics behind the production of transdisciplinary knowledge, reflecting upon its implications in the development of Urban Studies in Portugal. At a moment when the urban population grows rapidly at a global scale, this thematic area has been called to develop a transdisciplinary agenda to facilitate reflections around societal wicked problems, complex in nature, and to propose new public policy. Despite the misleading conceptual singularity of the term "transdisciplinarity", we can identify two approaches representative of different paradigmatic visions: one grounded in complexity theory that calls for a new spirituality and another, grounded on the Mode 2 society model, that promotes the co-production of knowledge for joint problem-solving. This research proposes a sociologic inquiry of these transdisciplinary logics in urban research and intervention aiming to contribute to the development of a scientific agenda that adequately responds to the challenges of Portugals urban reality.

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DINAMIA'CET-IULs new strategic goals focus on promoting studies about new methodological approaches and on fostering a deep understanding of the diversity of logics, processes and actors that are a key part of social change. This research is aligned with these strategic goals by proposing a study about the conditions in which transdisciplinary knowledge is produced, whenever oriented for urban research and intervention, in Portugal.