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The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization

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Editors:
  1. Paola Viganò

    1. EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Chiara Cavalieri

    1. EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  3. Martina Barcelloni Corte

    1. EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Delivers an original overview to the discussion on the contemporary city and new forms of urbanity
  • Provides a new manner of territorial readings through the use of both texts and maps
  • Offers a substantial contribution to the debate on the growing need for interdisciplinary knowledge

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project

    • Paola Viganò
    Pages 1-9

  3. Horizontal Metropolis: Theories and Roots, a Transcultural Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Horizontal Metropolis: Theories and Roots, a Transcultural Tradition: Introduction

      • Chiara Cavalieri
      Pages 13-17

    3. Horizontal Metropolis: Theories and Roots, a Transcultural Tradition Statements

      • Elena Cogato Lanza
      Pages 19-22

    4. The ‘Other’ Horizontal Metropolis: Landscapes of Urban Interdependence

      • Nikos Katsikis
      Pages 23-45

    5. Industrial Economy and Agrarian Urbanism

      • Charles Waldheim
      Pages 47-53

    6. The Echoes of Broadacre City in the Twenty-First Century

      • Catherine Maumi
      Pages 55-61

    7. From the Russian Chernozem to the Valley Section: A Micro-Story of Soil

      • Marine Durand
      Pages 63-69

    8. Genius of Utopia: The Evolutionary Nature of Genius Loci

      • Matthew Skjonsberg
      Pages 71-78

    9. Berlin Dispersed: A Genealogy of Ideas

      • Laura Veronese
      Pages 79-91

    10. The Patchwork Metropolis: Between Patches, Fragments and Situations

      • Carlo Pisano
      Pages 93-100

    11. Aesthetics and Spatial Practices. Some Examples from Switzerland

      • Mirza Tursic
      Pages 101-106

    12. Better Living Through Extensity

      • Jason Rebillot
      Pages 107-110

    13. Towards a Desakota Extended Metropolis? Growth and Spatiality of New (Peri-)Urbanism in Chinese Metropolitan Regions

      • George Lin
      Pages 111-130

    14. Urban-Rural Systems in Asia: A Research Agenda

      • Stephen Cairns
      Pages 131-134

    15. Horizontal Metropolis: A Tool for a New Kind of Territoriality?

      • Bénédicte Grosjean
      Pages 135-138

  4. Horizontal Metropolis: Spatial, Social and Natural Capital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Horizontal Metropolis: Spatial, Social and Natural Capital: Introduction

      • Brian McGrath, Martina Barcelloni Corte
      Pages 141-143

    3. Horizontal Metropolis: Spatial, Social and Natural Capital Statements

      • Christophe Girot
      Pages 145-151
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About this book

This book provides an overview of the Horizontal Metropolis concept, and of the theoretical, methodological and political implications for the interdisciplinary field in which it operates. The book investigates the contemporary emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents, up to the global scale. Further, it explores the diffusion of contemporary urban conditions in an interdisciplinary and original manner by analyzing essential case studies. Offering extensive content on the Horizontal Metropolis concept, the book presents a range of approaches intended to transcend various inherited spatial ontologies: urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, and society/nature. The book is intended for all readers interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Paola Viganò, Chiara Cavalieri, Martina Barcelloni Corte

About the editors

Paola Viganò, PhD in Architecture, is Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (Lausanne), where she directs the Laboratory of Urbanism (lab-U), and at Università IUAV, Venice. In 2013 Paola Viganò was the first woman to receive the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in France. In 2016 she was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Catholic University of Louvain and in 2017 she was appointed Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia (UVA). From 1990 to 2014, together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio, working on numerous projects in Antwerp, Mechelen, Kortrijk and La Courrouze, and visions for the Grand Paris, New Moscow and Brussels 2040 projects. More recently, she won the international competition for the City of Science quarter in Rome (2015) and was shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award for the Hostel in De Hoge Rielen (Belgium).
 
Chiara Cavalieri is an Architect and holds a PhD in Urbanism. She has collaborated with various professional and academic associations, organized several international workshops, and taught in the field of architecture and urbanism at a number of different international schools, i.e. EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), ITMO St. Petersburg (Russia), IUAV Venice (Italy), and GSD Harvard (USA). She has been a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL Lausanne since 2014.
 
Martina Barcelloni Corte, is an Architect and holds a PhD in Urbanism. She has worked as a freelancer for several international offices such as EMBT—Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue and Stefano Boeri Architetti, organized several international workshops, and taught in the field of architecture and urbanism at a number of international schools as EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), IUAV Venice (Italy), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), GSAPP Columbia University (USA), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). She has been a postdoctoral re-searcher at EPFLLausanne since 2014.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization

  • Editors: Paola Viganò, Chiara Cavalieri, Martina Barcelloni Corte

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75975-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75974-6Published: 13 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09369-3Published: 26 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75975-3Published: 04 May 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 422

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour

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

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