Giovanni Fusco delivered the presentation titled 'The Evolutive Meshed Compact City – A New Framework for the 15mC in Peripheral Areas' at the 23rd European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG 2023) in Braga, Portugal, held from September 14th to 17th, 2023. The presentation, a collaborative effort with Meta Berghauser Pont, Valerio Cutini, and, Angelika Psenner provides an overview of the emc2 model and introduces the research project, which aims to assess its advantages and weaknesses through six European case studies.