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Territorial Intelligence Project: Governance for Megalopolis Urban-Rural Linkage Pattern

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Megalopolis or Mega-city is a new scale that should not be defined by population numbers. We are in a new dimension, a new DNA. In the context of Megalopolis and regions where the scale of the urbanization goes beyond the traditional definition of a Metropolis, defining an effective governance structure and strategies is a challenging yet fundamental goal. Information technology plays a vital role in building the global Megalopolis, as the virtual infrastructure and data allow a city to be strategic at the international scale while advancing inhabitants’ daily life at the local scale. In this chapter we attempt to define the governance strategies in the mega global cities in two steps: first, to trace the dynamics between the various stakeholders in the mega-project that is often complex and less hierarchical and provide a framework where the genome of a Metropolis is evident. The second step emphasizes the importance of the direct relationship between the governance structure and the territorial contexts and intelligences.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Megalopolis and Megapolis are equivalent terms. Many authors use Megalopolis. As in mathematics and Linguistics, the shorter, the more elegant.

  2. 2.

    To the research date, nearly similar experiments of mapping Wi-Fi areas were produced. Above all, the Salt Lake City Wi-Fi Map developed at Senseable City Lab, MIT. See Sevtsuk, A., Huang, S., Calabrese, F., & Ratti, C. (2008, in press). Mapping the MIT Campus in Real-time Using WiFi. In M. Foth (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. IGI Global, Pennsylvania, 2008.

  3. 3.

    To respect the sources, the corresponding year of the data is not mentioned.

  4. 4.

    The mapping process of this part is developed in the Department of Architecture and Planning (DrPAU), Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Fabio Manfredini, 2013.

  5. 5.

    Up to the date of this research, the latest census was for 2011.

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Acknowledgements

Antonella Contin is the supervisor of chapters contents with Pedro Ortiz, plus she is the author of the following paragraphs: I–VI, XII–XV and 1-2-12. She is also the co-author, with Raana Saffari, of the following paragraphs: 4–5, 7–8, 10.

Pedro b. Ortiz authored paragraphs from VII to XI.

Valentina Galiulo wrote paragraph 3.

Raana Saffari Siahkali is the co-author of the above-mentioned paragraphs, plus she wrote paragraph 9.

Alessandra Pandolfi and Paola Campi authored together paragraph 6.

Sravya Lutukurthi, Ravali Sathiwada, Kushal Kumar, and Piyush Girgaonkar wrote paragraph 11.

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  1. Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, via Bonardi 3, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Antonella Contin, Valentina Galiulo, Raana Saffari Siahkali, Alessandra Pandolfi & Paola Campi

  2. Senior Consultant on Metropolitan Management and Planning for IGO’s (International Governmental Organizations) as the United Nations European Union, UN-Habitat, InterAmerican Development Bank, World Bank, Madrid, Spain

    Pedro B. Ortiz

  3. Team One India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Sravya Lutukurthi

  4. Uniworks Designs, Hyderabad, India

    Ravali Sathiwada

  5. Department of Public Works, State Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Kushal Kumar

  6. Department of Housing, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India

    Piyush Girgaonkar

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Contin, A. et al. (2021). Territorial Intelligence Project: Governance for Megalopolis Urban-Rural Linkage Pattern. In: Vinod Kumar, T. (eds) Smart Global Megacities. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2023-2_3

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