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An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives

Table 1 Selected city metaphors

From: Metaphor and urban studies-a crossover, theory and a case study of SS Rotterdam

The functional city

The smart city

The networked city

The sinful city

The slumdog city

The capitalist city

The flexible city

The polarised city

Toxic cities

The globalising megalopolis/global city

Digitally dived cities

The post-crash city

Software sorted cities

The liquid city

‘New’ gentrified city

Just cities