The Horizontal Metropolis : Spatial, Social and Natural Capital

A more integrated and trans-disciplinary understanding of the territory is crucial
for the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis that, beyond the construction of an interpretative concept, aims to explore design strategies able to capitalize on the
city-territory’s existing and too often overlooked infrastructural support (natural and
artificial), as a whole. Such a “palimpsest”, made of deeply embedded logics,
could in fact represent a fundamental resource to accommodate urban growth and to
reorient the form it could take in the future.