Technological and informational progress is among the leading factors that allow the increasing degree of economical liberalization and the shaping of a society that is based, first of all, an knowledge. From the first industrial revolution, the progress has manifested increasingly strong, it...

In the present paper we analyse, from an epistemological standpoint, the phases of economic and social development in Alvin Toffler's perspective. In his works, he analyses economy and society at three distinct levels, which he calls “waves”. In Toffler's view, humankind passed through two...

Economic growth is the process that haschanged the style and quality of life, hasmoved human activities from rural to urbanand has favored the dynamics of urbanagglomeration. In recent years, theconsequences of these trends of progress andurbanization have begun to be negatively felt,by warming...