WS4 – Global city regions and Macro regions in Europe | Pag 1 Evoluzione delle reti di città nella macro-regione centrale tra ricostruzione e sottoutilizzo Evolution of the network of cities in the central macroregion between reconstruction and underuse Donato Di Ludovico Contract Professor, University of L'Aquila mail: dondilud@tin.it Pierluigi Properzi Full Professor, University of L'Aquila mail: properzi@tin.it Abstract The strategy of the European Commission on Macro-regions tends towards an integrated approach in which different actors, policies and programs coexist in so far as the action is collective and common. This interpretive model can be applied to the so-called Central Macro-region in order to experience an approach characterized from the role of the system of networks, from each other employee and can be regarded like overcoming of the traditional interpretative models, such as polycentrism or dualism (city/countryside, infrastructuring/naturalness, protection/development, etc). The traditional conceptual models recalled in the preparation of the regional policies of central Italy refer in fact to socio-economic analysis focused on the duality: the coast, which belong to the more dynamic areas, hilly and mountainous area, which belongs that belongs to the system of critical settlement (underuse and reconstruction) without investigating the causes and effects by focusing only on the balance. These policies have produced the development of areas on the Adriatic corridor and penetration to the capital city, favouring the tendential phenomena not having the capacity to prime a reversal tends to rebalance, with the consequence that the actions put in place have failed to reconnect the regional areas, but often have created a greater and obvious breach between internal Region and coast. To exceed these schematism and to interpret the system of central Italy inside of the European median Area involve necessarily the abandonment of the dual and polycentric model and propose an interpretation for polycentric Territorial Systems and to variable gravitation of which studying the internal relations of network (short networks) and the external relations with the network of Global Cities (long networks) in Macro-regions with variable geometry. The regional System, considered as a whole and in its complexity, can be interpreted in relation to demographic characteristics of the centers, to those morphologic of the systems and in its interactions with the agricultural and natural landscapes but also in its relations with other systems and other cities (Core or Global Cities / Global City Regions).