Contractable Metric Spaces Homeomorphic to Euclidean Space

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Is there a characterization of all metric spaces which are homeomorphic to a contractable subset of Euclidean space?

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There is a famous open problem : If $d$ is an intrinsic metric on Euclidean 2-dimensional ball, then it is a limit of increasing Finsler metrics ?

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