Being Interdisciplinary, Adventures in urban science and beyond

Being Interdisciplinary by Alan Wilson presents a systems approach to interdisciplinarity for researchers in various fields. The author argues that most research is interdisciplinary and that a systems perspective fosters creativity and allows researchers to think beyond conventions. The book establishes the basics of interdisciplinarity, provides general principles and a framework for building an interdisciplinary toolkit, and tackles questions of managing and organizing research from individual to institutional scales. While the author's illustrations are from the field of urban science, the principles apply to other research fields as well.