<em>Qualitative metropolis</em>. A new culturally encoded concept with qualitative regeneration of formal and informal settlements. <em>The rule and the model</em>

Abstract

The city of today copes with an on-going syntactic transformation. Our research question horizon, then, is the metropolitan extension: its management, its architectural dimension and landscapes. From a metabolic point of view, the growth needs a discontinuity in its structure that regulates the logic disposal of no longer sustainable elements. For this reason we believe that even the architecture and the urban discipline need a strong discontinuity regarding the disciplinary experiences of recent past years. The aim of the paper is to present a possible vision for socio- economic development of the territories, through a physical approach, and a high quality architectural and urban operations carried out within a new metropolitan system, according to the metro-matrix strategy that we have experimented in various fast growing cities projects.

Keywords

• Metropolitan architecture
• Green & grey infrastructure
• Informal settlement
• City model
• Mental map