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The EPFL Latsis Congress demonstrates that the notion of Horizontal Metropolis, which Paola Viganò first put forward in the context of Brussels2040 (Secchi and Viganò 2012), then theorized by a retroactive genealogy based on Gloeden’s cellular model (Viganò in Images Mid-Size City OASE 89:94–111, 2013), also raises many echoes in other quite diversified disciplines. It would thus have the potential to become a way for reconceiving contemporary spatial changes in a multidisciplinary way (with economics, ecology, philosophy, politics, engineering, architecture, urban planning and landscape). As a result, it could also become a collective construction, which the success of the congress sketches out. My contribution to this joint elaboration could start with a reflection on what that notion should not be, to then discuss what it could allow us to think in another way.
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Olivier Coutard (ENPC, Paris), “Territorial-infrastructural reconfigurations: heating the Horizontal Metropolis”, presentation at Latsis Symposium, October 2015, EPFL.
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Grosjean, B. (2018). Horizontal Metropolis: A Tool for a New Kind of Territoriality?. 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_14
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