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What has been the nature of cities and urbanism over the last 50 years? What prototype images have captured the center stage of our perceptions and categorizations of cities and what instances and properties of cities and urbanism were pushed to the periphery? How has the IRN process — this on-going interplay between internal images and external appearances of the city — developed?

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Portugali, J. (2000). Prototype Urbanisms. In: Self-Organization and the City. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04099-7_3

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