Metropolitan Landscapes

This edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan Landscapes. Solutions are needed to meet the demand of the citizens of a renewed metropolitan region landscape. It opens up discussions about possible toolkits for strategic actions based on understanding the territory from geographical, urban, architectural, economic, environmental, and public policy perspectives. This book intends to promote the Metropolitan dwelling quality, ensuring human well-being proposing a discussion on the resilient articulation of the interface space among the city's infrastructure, agriculture, and nature. This book results from the Symposium: Metropolitan Landscapes that MSLab of the Politecnico di Milano and ETSA (Sevilla) organized at the IALE 2019 Conference (Milan, July 2019) to manage radical territory transformation with a strategic vision. The widespread growth of urban areas indicates the importance of building resilient sustainable cities capable of minimizing climate-change impact production.

The Symposium aimed to discuss the Urban Metabolism approach considering the combination of Landscapes set in a single Metropolitan Ecosystem. Accordingly, new design strategies of transformation, replacement or maintenance can compose Urban-Rural Linkage patterns and a decalage of different landscape contexts. Ecological interest in environmental sustainability, compatibility, and resilience is not tied exclusively to the balance between production and energy consumption. Thus, it is the integration over time and at several scales of the urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants that nourish the Metropolitan Bioregion. Moreover, the Metropolitan Landscape Book's research hypothesis is the need for a Glossary, strengthening the basis of understanding Metropolitan Landscape's complexity.

This book's topic is particularly relevant to Landscape Urbanism, Architecture, Urban disciplines Scholars, Students and Practitioners who want to be connectedin a significant way with Metropolitan Discipline's research field.

Auteur
Antonella Contin arch. Ph.D. is Research Associate at DAStU / Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. She is Coordinator of MSLab Measure and Scale of the Contemporary city. Since years she is developing the theoretical foundation of the Practice of Metropolitan Discipline. She was Group Coordinator of some research projects at the metropolitan scale in Europe, Africa, Latino America and India regarding new land uses and urban-rural patterns, urban development and environmental promotion.

Contenu
Proposed TOC: Section A The new cultural perspective

1. The resilience of a complex system. Green-grey infrastructure as the structural matrix of the landscape of the Metropolitan city.

2. Landscape citizenship.

3. The Metacity.

4. Metropolitan Landscape Culture. 5. Urban morphology as a tool for the articulation of the new Metropolitan Landscapes.

6. Reciprocity between the city and the countryside

Section B The Tool

1. Metropolitan Cartography.

2. Metropolitan dynamics and transformation of landscapes. The space-time scale of projects approach and monitoring tools.

3. A new planning and design approach for developing countries, using modern technological tools to drive conscious localization choices, even in highly fragmented urban contexts, where self-constructed housing is the standard.

Section C The good practices

1. Urban Betterment and Ecological Restoration: Urban Periphery Area Green Space Transformation. Case Study of the Heizhuanghu Area (Tingting Huang, Beijing Forestry University (BFU)

2. Dynamic characterize of resilience in metropolitan city (Jing FU, Shanghai Normal University)

3. On continuity: the landscape unit and eco-centrality (Sandy Jiyoon Kim, Politecnico di Milano)

4. In search of Landscape: Guadalajara, Milan and Seville key study (V.Galiulo, Politecnico di Milano) 5. Metropolitan Impacts and Drivers Assessment. The M-I-D-A project (I.Neri, Politecnico di Milano)

6. Landscapes of Vulnerability. The case of Rio de Janeiro (C. Wade, New York Institute of Technology- School of Architecture and Design)