ABSTRACT
This chapter considers corridors as emerging territorial assemblages; and investigates them in the Italian context, to unsettle conventional definitions of capital, labour and resources mobilization over different territorial partitions. Scholars such as Florida and Soja and Kanai have written that the focus on cities is wrong, as growth and innovation come from new urban corridors. The geography of corridors is led by a constellation of factors: infrastructural and logistic, economic and social factors. Supra-local and supra-national as they often are, territorial corridors are an emerging extended urban form still looking for scientific and political representation. The local production and governance of goods, and its influence on territorial systems, is a matter of fact mostly ignored by the planetary urbanization literature. The European Union (EU) approach to corridors focuses on the needs of the main metropolitan areas, which are to be interconnected by the high-speed 'core network corridors' (CNC4) of the TEN-T, mostly ignoring in-between social and economic environments.
