Since a sustainable approach of the urban development implies a moderate consumption of the territory, how to deal efficiently with the best potentialities for extensions?

Aligning
Developing the city along an infrastructure, simultaneously addressing the large scale of an urban band, and the local scale with its fringes
 

Badajos (E)

Calahorra (E)

Cork (Ir)

Moudon (CH)

Ørestad (DK)

Riga (LV)

Santander (E)

Tartu (EE)

Tjörn (S)
 

Limiting
Expanding the city towards a natural limit. The manner to conceive this limit and to elaborate its relations will have a decisive impact on the future potential of the site.
 

Almere (NL)

Catania (I)

Espoo (SF)

Kapfenberg (A)

Kotka (SF)

La Laguna-Tenerife (E)

Odda (N)

Rostock (D)

Tallinn (EE)