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The Metropolitan Structure for a Set of Metropolitan Landscapes

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The Practice of Metropolitan Discipline supports the construction of the Metropolitan Landscape structure with an organizational, technical expertise, proposing the big project of urbanity based on the physical (Net-City) and virtual (Metacity) network between the new city shape, the interfaces among built capital and natural capital, and the new forms of conviviality within new settlement patterns. The approach of metropolitan metabolism nourishes the territory through an ecological interest in environmental sustainability, compatibility and resilience not tied exclusively to the balance between energy produced and expenditure, but to the integration over time and to the different scales of the rural and urban landscape.

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    In this scenario, the 2018 edition of the UN World Water Development Report (UN, 2018) announces that “More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than double that number lack access to safe sanitation. With a rapidly growing global population, water demand is expected to increase by nearly one-third by 2050. In the face of accelerated consumption, increasing environmental degradation and the multi-faceted impacts of climate change, we need new ways to manage competing demands on our precious freshwater resources”. Nonetheless, water management is one of the biggest tasks within a city, and getting it right is necessary for cities and their inhabitants to both survive and thrive. The water management of the city also affects rural and natural areas, threatening the freshwater reserves. National and regional climate policy and planning must take an integrated approach to climate change and water management. Increased water stress and meeting future demands will require increasingly tough decisions about how to allocate water resources between competing water uses, including for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Contin, A. (2021). The Metropolitan Structure for a Set of Metropolitan Landscapes. In: Contin, A. (eds) Metropolitan Landscapes. Landscape Series, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74424-3_1

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