Corridors and Arcs. Questioning territorial (re)articulation on the edge between networks and isolations

In the apparently existing dichotomy between the increasing need and apprehension for being connected and the growing feelings of nationalism and regionalism, do corridors and arcs still represent the matrix figures to strengthen the (inter)dependencies between communities in cities and regions within the broader form of the network? By enhancing kinésis, exchange, use, and occupation as privileged places of mobility, connectivity and continuity, corridors and arcs detonate the explosion of territory in multiple scales of rearticulation. As this would probably be the last attempt to make administrative borders survive – up to the stage of nations –, the thesis goes through ongoing studies and design experiences dealing with building new urbanity and scaling systems under shrinkage in some of the existing elements shaping regional processes: corridors as conduits, and arcs as circuits. The powerful tools they hold can extract the materiality of spaces and flows beyond the limits of tangible and intangible boundaries, fitting perfectly into the system of relations occurring in the age of networks. The aim is to demonstrate the broader impact of a local reflection on regional spatialised politics, according to a physically and digitally connected society. The reconfiguration of the territory and the landscape, strengthened through corridors and arcs of cities as communities, produces impacts in the trans-scale perspective of the network, knowing that the current planetary stage of the Urban is the more comprehensive lens through which to observe the subregional dimensions where societies live and which should not be forgotten.