[1] See: Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Joint Center for Urban Studies. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1960 and Jameson, Fredric. “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.

[2] Lussault, Michel. “Images (De La Ville) Et Politique Territoriale.” Géocarrefour: Revue de Géographie de Lyon 73.1 (1998): 45-54.

[3] For “megalopolis”, see: Gottmann, Jean. Megalopolis; the Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1961. For “post-metropolis”: Soja, Edward W. Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. For urban regions, especially for urban-megaregions, see: Florida, Richard, Tim Gulden, and Charlotta Mellander. “The Rise of the Mega-region.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1.3 (2008): 459-76.For “urban archipelago” see: Indovina, Francesco, Luigi Doria, Laura Fegolent, and Michelangelo Savino. Dalla Città Diffusa all’Arcipelago Metropolitano. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2009. For “edge cities”: Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor, 1992. For: exurbs and edgeless cities see: Lang, Robert, and Paul K. Knox. “The New Metropolis: Rethinking Megalopolis.” Regional Studies 43.6 (2009): 789-802.

[4] Brenner, Neil and Christian Schmid. “Planetary Urbanisation.”Implosions/explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. Berlin: JOVIS, 2014. 160-163.

[5] The following references to Lefebvre belong to: Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Oxford, OX, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 1991.

[6] Lefebvre, Henri. The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

[7] See, for instance: Potere, David, and Annemarie Schneider. “A critical look at representations of urban areas in global maps.” GeoJournal 2007: 55-80.

[8] Calvino, Italo. Six Memos for the Next Millennium. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1988. Serres, Michel. Atlas. Paris: Editions Julliard, 1994. Hénaff, Marcel, and Anne-Marie Feenberg. “Of Stones, Angels and Humans: Michel Serres and the Global City.” SubStance 26.2 (1997): 59-80.

[9] Le Corbusier. The Three Human Establishments. Chandigarh: Punjab Govt., Dept. of Town & Country Planning. 1979.

[10] Doxiades, Konstantinos Apostolou, Papaioannou, J. G., and Athenaiko Kentro Oikistikes. Ecumenopolis: The Inevitable City of the Future. New York: Norton, 1974.

[11] Muratori, Saverio. Civiltà e Territorio. Centro Studi Di Storia Urbanistica, 1967.

[12] Smithson, Alison Margaret, and Peter Smithson. Urban Structuring: Studies of Alison & Peter Smithson. London, New York: Studio Vista; Reinhold, 1967.

[13] The tangential exception would be Lucia Allais‘s analysis of the formation of cultural international institutions.

[14] Solà-Morales, Manuel et al. Quaderns Extra d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme. 1-2 (1981).

[15] Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. What Is Philosophy? New York: Columbia UP, 1994.106.