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The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project

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The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization

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The book is an account of the international encounter held at the EPFL between researchers and Ph.D. students belonging to different geographic and disciplinary contexts and constructed around two joint occasions: the Latsis Symposium and the 8th Ph.D. Urbanism&Urbanization Seminar 2015. The general theme we have proposed, The Horizontal Metropolis: a radical project, is both an image and a conceptual device through which to criticize, apprehend and imagine the contemporary city and its future challenges. It refers to a specific spatial condition characterized by a horizontality of infrastructure, urbanity, relationships, and by closely interlinked, co-penetrating rural/urban realms, communication, transport and economic systems.

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  1. 1.

    Two books are in preparation: The Horizontal Metropolis. A radical project (Cavalieri, C., Viganò P., eds., Park, Zürich, 2017, forthcoming), The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology (Barcelloni Corte, M., Viganò, P., eds., Springer, 2017, forthcoming).

  2. 2.

    “I have chosen the term ‘postmetropolis’ as a working title for what might otherwise be called the new urbanism, had not the latter term been taken up by architects and designers for other and narrower purposes”. Soja (2000), Postmetropolis, Preface xiii.

  3. 3.

    The team: Studio Bernardo Secchi, Paola Viganò with CREAT, Egis Mobilité, Gerhard Hausladen (TU München), IDEA Consult, Karbon.

  4. 4.

    The Symposium was organized in three sessions (1 The Horizontal Metropolis: spatial and natural capital, 2 The Horizontal Metropolis: issues and challenges of a new urban ecology, 3 The Horizontal Metropolis: a transcultural tradition) which have been re-elaborated in this publication, reorganizing the contributions in function of a more fluid and clear chain of reflections.

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    Paola Viganò

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Viganò, P. (2018). The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project. In: Viganò, P., Cavalieri, C., Barcelloni Corte, M. (eds) The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75975-3_1

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