Front covers -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- EDITORIAL -- ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR -- SPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issue -- INTRODUCTION: System City: Infrastructure and the Space of Flows -- Variation and Distribution: Forest Patterns as a Model for Urban Morphologies -- A History of Territories, Movements and Borders: Politics of Inhabitation -- A Distributed Ground: The Unknown Fields Division -- Third Natures: Incubators of Public Space -- Intelligent Cities and the Taxonomy of Cognitive Scales -- Darwin Among the Machines -- Cities and Grids: In Search of New Paradigms -- The Grounds of a Renewed Practice: Groundlab's Approach Towards Landscape and Infrastructure -- Scales of Metabolic Flows: Regional, Urban and Building Systems Design at SOM -- Metasystems of Urban Flow: Buro Happold's Collaborations in the Generation of New Urban Ecologies -- Local Climates of the City -- Ex Silico Ad Vivo: Computational Simulation and Urban Design at Foster + Partners -- Networks and the City -- Data City: Urban Metabolic Decision Processes -- COUNTERPOINT: The City Beyond Analogy -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN -- Back covers.