Part I Possible Dialogue between Social Sciences and Architecture -- Chapter 1. The Urbanology. Contemporary City and Plural Knowledge; João Seixas -- Chapter 2. Discussing Space and Scale in the Processes of Urban Design and Social Interaction; Jorge Macaísta Malheiros -- Chapter 3. Space and Society: Principles for a Programme of Sociological Research; Virgilio Borges Pereira -- Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary Relations betweem Social Sciences and Architecture: Tensions, Ambiguities and Complementarities; Maria Manuela Mendes and Teresa Sa -- Chapter 5. It It's Space It's Social; Fernando Bagulho and Tainha -- Chapter 6. Essay on Public Space. Harveyan Utopian thought and Social Justice; Marcio Moraes Valenca -- Chapter 7. Changing the Space of Community Care: Architecture , Social Ties and Mechanisms of De-Stigmatization; Tommaso Vitale -- Chapter 8. Art, Contemporanéité, Histoire; Marc Augé -- Part II. Architecture, Politics and social Change in Urban Territories; European Perspectives -- Chapter 9. Disclosing a Social Housing Area through 3D Virtual Model Art; Barbara Morovich -- Chapter 10. Architecture and the ''Right to the City'': The IBA Hamburg as a Case for Critical Urban Studies; Frank Eckardt -- Chapter 11. Visualizing the Urban: Tools for Representing Milan Change; Rossella Salerno -- Chapter 12. The ''Emigrants Houses'': Anthropology and Architecture on Material Culture; Filomena Silvano -- Chapter 13. Participatory Tools in the Qualification of Critical Urban Areas; Isabel Raposo, José Luis Crespo and Sílvia Jorge -- Chapter 14. Understanding the Informal City: A View from the Social Spaces of Talude Militar; Joana Pestana Lages -- Chapter 15. Reading the Postcolonial Territory: Tools for Perceiving Inheritance, Dwelling and Changes. The African Microstate of Sao Tome and Principe as Case-Study; Ana Silva Fernandes.