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Speaking of the Po plain metropolitan system along the Mediterranean Corridor, we must refer to a nontraditional settlement vision. This kind of vision finds its roots in a certain number of essays and publications concerning the development of various settlements along kinematical axes, based on communication and transportation infrastructures that sometimes evolve rapidly, while other times takes a long time. For instance, BosWash is a name coined by Herman Kahn in a 1967 essay describing a theoretical US linear metropolitan system extending from the urban area of Boston to that of Washington D.C. This publication coined terms like BosWash referring to a predicted urbanization in the Northeastern US or SanSan for the urban agglomerations on the Pacific coast of California.
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BosNYWash is a variant term that specifically refers to New York City.
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Programma di ricerca di interesse nazionale (PRIN) 2007, Dalla città metropolitana al corridoio metropolitano: il caso del corridoio padano, Ministero della Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, 2007MMJS3_004.
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Only much later, with the unification of Italy, connections were realized between the network of the North, especially built by the Austrians and Piedmontese, and Florence, Rome and Naples, which, with the Naples–Portici, had seen the birth of the first rail of the peninsula, in 1839, with a total length of 7.25 km.
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ESDP—European Spatial Development Perspective. Towards Balanced and Sustainable Development of the Territory of the European Union, agreed at the Informal Council of Ministers responsible for Spatial Planning in Potsdam, May 1999, Published by the European Commission, 3 Policy Aims and Options for the Territory of the EU, 3.1 Spatial Orientation of Policies.
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Pedrocco, P. (2015). The Metropolitan System Along the Mediterranean Corridor in Northern Italy—The Problem of Magnitude and the Need of New Territorial Governance. In: Fabbro, S. (eds) Mega Transport Infrastructure Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16396-3_5
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