Towards an urban transmodern and decolonial theory: an introduction

Abstract

This paper argues that the global impacts caused by the homogenisation and loss of identity tendencies in architecture and planning will be only overcome if recognizing them as part of the world westernization and if a decolonial attitude is promoted for leading the urban-architectural theory through “transmodernity” by means of the “ecology of knowledge” including the experiences that modern thinking marginalized. In that sense, the paper presents a critical approach based on “territorial coloniality”.