ABSTRACT
This contribution aims at widening the discussion on public space to its rhizomic nature as a non-hierarchical, always evolving, and highly adaptive and connected system. As such, it can be seen as system composed by multiple other urban and territorial systems, either ecological, infrastructural, or social, operating in their intersection and articulation. This perspective highlights the conceptual role of public space in a metropolitan context by acknowledging its diffuse and porous boundaries as potential fields to promote synergies and positive differentiation in our highly heterogeneous and multiple metropolitan territories.
