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The Horizontal Metropolis

The Anthology

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Editors:
  1. Martina Barcelloni Corte

    1. ULiège, Liège, Belgium

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  2. Paola Viganò

    1. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Introduces new approaches in cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography
  • Contributes to the wider debate on the contemporary city and new forms of urbanity
  • Offers interdisciplinary knowledge on urban and design education

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Genealogy, Tradition: An Anthology

    • Paola Viganò
    Pages 1-7

  3. Prophecies and Clues (Anticipations)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Prophecies and Clues: Introduction

      • Martina Barcelloni Corte
      Pages 11-15

    3. Switzerland as a City (1763)

      • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
      Pages 17-27

    4. The Decentralization of Industries (1899)

      • Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin
      Pages 29-45

    5. The Urban Region (1901)

      • Herbert George Wells
      Pages 47-65

    6. The Return to the Fields (1903)

      • Emile Vandervelde
      Pages 67-77

    7. The Fruitful Garden (1910)

      • Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
      Pages 79-89

    8. The City-Region (1915)

      • Patrick Geddes
      Pages 91-105

    9. The Land of Peasant Utopia (1920)

      • Alexander Vasilevich Chayanov
      Pages 107-147

    10. The New Settlement Pattern (1930)

      • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Okhitovich
      Pages 149-169

    11. Broadacre City (1932)

      • Frank Lloyd Wright
      Pages 171-181

  4. Interpretative Concepts and Visions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Interpretative Concepts and Visions: Introduction

      • Paola Viganò
      Pages 185-191

    3. Megalopolis (1961)

      • Jean Gottmann
      Pages 193-209

    4. La Città Territorio (The City Territory) (1962)

      • Giorgio Piccinato, Vieri Quilici, Manfredo Tafuri
      Pages 211-229

    5. The Urbanized Countryside (1968)

      • Giuseppe Samonà
      Pages 231-245

    6. Rurbanisation (1976)

      • Gérard Bauer, Jean Michel Roux
      Pages 247-259

    7. Agropolitan Development (1978)

      • John Friedmann
      Pages 261-292
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About this book

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assembling a series of textual and cartographic interventions, this book explores those that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature). It investigates the emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents up to the global scale through the reconstruction of a fundamental but neglected tradition. This book responds to the radical nature of the changes underway today, calling for a rethinking of the Western Metropolis idea and form along with the emergence of new urban paradigms. The Horizontal Metropolis concept represents an ambitious attempt to offer new instruction to take on this challenge at the global scale. The book is intended fora wide audience interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in urbanism, architecture, cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.




Editors and Affiliations

  • ULiège, Liège, Belgium

    Martina Barcelloni Corte

  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Paola Viganò

About the editors

Martina Barcelloni, PhD in Urbanism, is Architect and Scientific Collaborator at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, since 2014. She has worked as a freelancer for several international offices such as EMBT—Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue and Stefano Boeri Architetti, participated in the staging of several international workshops, and taught in the field of architecture and urbanism at a number of international schools as EPF Lausanne (Switzerland), IUAV Venice (Italy), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), GSAPP Columbia University (USA), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). She is currently concluding a research on urban-rural soils and coordinates the Executive Board of Habitat Research Centre at the EPFL.


Paola Viganò, PhD in Architecture, is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) where she heads the Lab-U and the new interdisciplinary Habitat Research Centre. She is also professor at IUAV University Venice, Italy. Guest professor in several international schools, in 2013 she has received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in France; in 2016 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCL; in 2017 the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture (Ultima Architectuur) and in 2018 the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale. 



From 1990 to 2014, together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio, working on numerous projects and visions in Europe. Since 2015 StudioPaolaViganò has been working on urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe and has won several international competitions. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Horizontal Metropolis

  • Book Subtitle: The Anthology

  • Editors: Martina Barcelloni Corte, Paola Viganò

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56398-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56397-4Published: 04 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56400-1Published: 05 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56398-1Published: 03 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 540

  • Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban History

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