ABSTRACT
In a context of territories almost entirely artificialized by Man, seeking to distinguish urban from nature might seem not relevant anymore. The urban condition tends to become globalized and decentralized everywhere. Among those context, the diffuse city is made of fragments of heterogeneous urban materials densely inhabited on an ‘infrastructured’ layer of transport and well equipped with various city’s functions. Knowing this, the city’s edge condition, which once was facing the countryside frankly, continuously and often peripherally, has also become globalized, decentralized. City’s edge is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. And yet, the city and the countryside remain operative concepts in the collective imaginaries. What happened to the urban and natural features in the contemporary city and what are their transformations today? Through the theme of internal limits, this paper will investigate the contemporary relationships between elements of the territory, mainly between the open ones and the built ones towards project strategies for sustainable and ideal urban future.
