Revamping the “Network Paradigm”

In the contemporary metropolitan areas the quality of the “space of flows” in terms of 'urbanity' is becoming crucial. Urbanity is closely related to the multi-scale and flexible interconnections of the strategic railway nodes as privileged exchange hubs for both global and local spaces, on the one hand, and epicentres of the most significant urban regeneration projects on the other. Topology, kinetics and adaptivity represent the key features of the mobility network systems, and can be beneficially used to regenerate the metropolitan territory providing new identities to the archipelago of European conurbations.