Metrolab

As cities grow at fast pace and increasingly spread beyond their political and administrative borders, leading to the emergence of highly intertwined city-regions, the metropolitan scale becomes essential for addressing the challenges of our time. Against the backdrop of multiple crisis, the need for an integrated, cross-sectoral, multi-level and people-centered approach to metropolitan development becomes evident. However, metropolitan planning is often not yet sufficiently integrated into contemporary planning practice and culture.

This publication stimulates the debate on metropolitan design as a new discipline and compiles and deepens the knowledge gained from the two-year international exchange of knowledge and experience on metropolitan planning, that was launched in the frame of MetroLab. The elaborated collection of participatory and co-creative tools provides impulses on how to build development visions, find common development strategies and translate them into place-based solutions.