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The modernistic city aimed to balance market and rights, productivity and reproduction. Today we know that this remains impossible : the contradictory and instable essence of capitalism has revealed the misunderstandings of an utopia, clashing with the speculative production of the city and the inefficiency of the welfare state. while claiming less is more, some major blunders have been produced: built structures that segregate and universalist life models. Thinking in resilient terms , however, also requires to re-envision the urban ecologies in which these projects are embedded. How could they reconceptualise the relationship between built and unbuilt? How could they become an asset to embed wider flows of use and landscape dynamics? The design studio elaborates five cases studies.