Re-envisioning the Metro Urban-Rural Linkages as a Complex Adaptive System Encompassing Anti-fragility for Building Resilience in Small and Medium-Sized Cities

The second modernity metropolis is a system of places collaborating on local projects for maintenance, enhancement, and transformation as a collective sustainability heritage. It allows places to relate reciprocally through the implementation and care of metropolitan landscapes and resources. This chapter reflects on the metro urban-rural linkage pattern (MetroURL) project to revolutionize metropolitan landscapes by establishing an agro-urban ecocentrality network. It focuses on antifragile preventive armatures and hybrid landscapes, natural resource management, food security, and spatial flows of people, products, services, and information. By defining a metropolitan sustainable urbanity theory, emphasizing continuity and antifragile preventive armatures, it develops new tools for understanding interactions in social and ecological systems, focusing on self-organizing antifragile resource management at the local scale. It commits to searching for innovative approaches oriented to visions of resource management at the local scale but systematized to self-organizing and antifragile metropolitan dimensions, with greater respect for the environment and democracy.