The metropolitan region is a form of urban territory in which city and landscape re-array into an urban landscape system characterized by multiple modes of organization and dynamic socio-spatial processes. Perspectives on the operative relationship between landscape and city emerging in recent decades present new ways to understand, order and act in metropolitan territories. To what extent landscape as permanent underlying substructure, or as physical open space system, or as metabolic process has a bearing on the future of the metropolitan region are the broader lenses of these perspectives....