Presentation

Abstract

Cities –the leit motiv for this second issue of INTERdisciplina — provides expressive venues for some of the problems with a major social impact in the twenty first century, such as poverty and the plundering of the environment (which entails great asymmetries in the use of natural resources and consumption of energy), that are also intertwined with other social processes that exacerbate exclusion and inequality, and from which emerge more immediate risks, such as crime and discrimination, associated with the stigmatization of the more vulnerable groups.