What are the historical and contemporary roots of urbanization? What is the relationship of the city to the territory? If the contemporary city is a diffuse condition of urbanization that has metastasized into the territory, how do we, then, assert the city? Does the notion of limits offer a form of resistance to the territorial nature of the contemporary city? Can an archipelago of finite urban nodes begin to reconstitute the city within the territory?

This book is an exploration of the above queries in regards to the contemporary city and seeks to state a position of resistance with the use of form.