Research's IaaC - RD1 Hyperterritories

A new kind of ‘geo-urban’ territoriality defines the city today, resulting in a high degree of complexity and an infrastructural diversity that proclaims its own multiple nature of interlinked events and spaces. Just as we recognize the existence of a plural city, we also have to recognize the existence of a multiple city: a multi-city. The definition of the ‘metapolis’ goes beyond the modern metropolis, involving the existence of a vibrant territory, similar at the general (global) and diverse at the particular (local) level. The contemporary metapolis is defined as a dynamic and mutable system made up of collisions, encounters and intersections that end up yielding an extensive variety of combinations and scenarios, both real and virtual, specific and plural. This city can no longer be defined as an island: it must be seen as a wide spectrum of situations — ‘cities inside the city.’ This is the essence of the contemporary metapolis: that is, to become a ‘hyper-place,’ a ‘place of places.’ The study of its strategic orientation, its network of articulation, its evolutionary capability and its qualitative development will be the objectives of this line of investigation.