“…To answer this question, the reality of the metropolis is discussed in two main aspects: a first, concerning the understanding of the metropolitan space as a socio-historical product, the result of the conception of the creators of the project for the construction of a new capital for Brazil and of the spatial practice - of them and of those who appropriate this space, also acting in its production - which resulted in what we now know as Brasília and its metropolitan space; and a second, concerning the passage from the analysis of the discursive plan to the fully lived one, that is, from the demonstration, through ideas, concepts, information and findings, of which metropolitan space it is concerned, one seeks to enter this space at scale of everyday life in order to try to show the lived space: that which the inhabitants of a distant and supposedly less integrated periphery take over who are, in fact, a constituent part of the metropolis…”

“…From its source in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico; from the creation of the mighty Mississippi aeons ago to today's crowded metropolis along its levees, we travel through time and space to reveal the true nature of the most famous American river…”

“…Can the city centre be extended to become the centre of the Brussels metropolis where everyone can find his or her own place? …”

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