After the industrial city

After the industrial city The city and the urban (FURTADO, Gonçalo, As Novas Formas UrbanoTerritoriais: A Cidade e o Arquitecto (2000). In: Arq./a, Lisboa, Abril 2009, p.78-81). Focusing on the new forms of the territorial and urban it is paramount to recognize that in a new reality - arising from the eruption of cultural globalization, economic internationalization and technological progress, as well as with a diversity of urban phenomena - new forms, dynamics and urban-territorial assumptions are established, based on mobility and flow. (1) (Vd. also: CASTELLS, Manuel, The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989).