Metropolitan Landscapes: Towards a Shared Construction of the Resilient City of the Future

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)

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.