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Metaphors, Figures of Space and the Horizontal Metropolis

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This text addresses the need for an investigation into the metaphors we use when we design, interpret and reflect on contemporary cities and their future. Based on a series of concrete experiences where a set of conceptual metaphors have been proposed as powerful constructive tools, this paper opens up a wide reframing of the future city and metropolitan project and the construction of its narrative.

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    Cedric Price, Park de La villette Competition 1982—Report, 1982 CCA Archives, Cedric Price: 156 Parc 1.3.3 Report concours parc de la Villette.

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    The research was exhibited as a side event of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016 (curated by P. Viganò with Chiara Cavalieri and Martina Barcelloni Corte) and in 2018 at the BOZAR in Brussels with the addition of three new case studies (Flanders, Brussels Capital Region and Wallonia) to the previous five.

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  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Paola Viganò

  2. Università IUAV, Venice, Italy

    Paola Viganò

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  1. Department of Architecture (DIDA), Regional Design Lab, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Valeria Lingua

  2. Department of Urbanism, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Verena Balz

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Viganò, P. (2020). Metaphors, Figures of Space and the Horizontal Metropolis. In: Lingua, V., Balz, V. (eds) Shaping Regional Futures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23573-4_12

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