The Metropolitan System Along the Mediterranean Corridor in Northern Italy – The Problem of Magnitude and the Need of New Territorial Governance

The identification of the main dimensional assumptions concerning networks of transport in the metropolitan Linear system or LiMeS, which developes in the Italian section along the course of the Barcelona-Kiev Corridor V, is the basis from which to start an argument about trends in relationship between trade and settlement system and on how policies attempt at European, national and regional levels, to respond to structural and systemic problems that arise on these matters. The essay deal with the Po Valley area and with the infrastructural Corridor that provide a sort of base for the evolution of settlements along a sort of North italian linear metropolitan system. This base evolved in a long period, through centuries, and nowadays seems define a new megalopolis along the system of these infrastructures from Turin to Venice, trough Milan, and towards the eastern area of Friuli Venezia Giulia.