The Horizontal Metropolis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Genealogy, Tradition: An Anthology

   • Paola Viganò

   Pages 1-7

3. Prophecies and Clues (Anticipations)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Prophecies and Clues: Introduction

      • Martina Barcelloni Corte

      Pages 11-15

   3. Switzerland as a City (1763)

      • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

      Pages 17-27

   4. The Decentralization of Industries (1899)

      • Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin

      Pages 29-45

   5. The Urban Region (1901)

      • Herbert George Wells

      Pages 47-65

   6. The Return to the Fields (1903)

      • Emile Vandervelde

      Pages 67-77

   7. The Fruitful Garden (1910)

      • Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree

      Pages 79-89

   8. The City-Region (1915)

      • Patrick Geddes

      Pages 91-105

   9. The Land of Peasant Utopia (1920)

      • Alexander Vasilevich Chayanov

      Pages 107-147

   10. The New Settlement Pattern (1930)

       • Mikhail Aleksandrovich Okhitovich

       Pages 149-169

   11. Broadacre City (1932)

       • Frank Lloyd Wright

       Pages 171-181

4. Interpretative Concepts and Visions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Interpretative Concepts and Visions: Introduction

      • Paola Viganò

      Pages 185-191

   3. Megalopolis (1961)

      • Jean Gottmann

      Pages 193-209

   4. La Città Territorio (The City Territory) (1962)

      • Giorgio Piccinato, Vieri Quilici, Manfredo Tafuri

      Pages 211-229

   5. The Urbanized Countryside (1968)

      • Giuseppe Samonà

      Pages 231-245

   6. Rurbanisation (1976)

      • Gérard Bauer, Jean Michel Roux

      Pages 247-259

   7. Agropolitan Development (1978)

      • John Friedmann

      Pages 261-292

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assembling a series of textual and cartographic interventions, this book explores those that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature). It investigates the emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents up to the global scale through the reconstruction of a fundamental but neglected tradition. This book responds to the radical nature of the changes underway today, calling for a rethinking of the Western Metropolis idea and form along with the emergence of new urban paradigms. The Horizontal Metropolis concept represents an ambitious attempt to offer new instruction to take on this challenge at the global scale. The book is intended fora wide audience interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in urbanism, architecture, cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.

• Horizontal Metropolis
• Horizontal Urbanism
• Urban Dispersion
• Planetary Urbanization
• Urban Development
• Urban History
• Urban Geography and Urbanism

• ULiège, Liège, Belgium

  Martina Barcelloni Corte

• EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Paola Viganò

Martina Barcelloni, PhD in Urbanism, is Architect and Scientific Collaborator at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, since 2014. She has worked as a freelancer for several international offices such as EMBT—Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue and Stefano Boeri Architetti, participated in the staging of several international workshops, and taught in the field of architecture and urbanism at a number of international schools as EPF Lausanne (Switzerland), IUAV Venice (Italy), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), GSAPP Columbia University (USA), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). She is currently concluding a research on urban-rural soils and coordinates the Executive Board of Habitat Research Centre at the EPFL.


Paola Viganò, PhD in Architecture, is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) where she heads the Lab-U and the new interdisciplinary Habitat Research Centre. She is also professor at IUAV University Venice, Italy. Guest professor in several international schools, in 2013 she has received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in France; in 2016 the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCL; in 2017 the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture (Ultima Architectuur) and in 2018 the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale. 



From 1990 to 2014, together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio, working on numerous projects and visions in Europe. Since 2015 StudioPaolaViganò has been working on urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe and has won several international competitions. 

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