The Silk Road 5.0

The essay analyzes the relationships between cities, territories, infrastructures and material/intangible flows in the post-pandemic era dominated by Asia and China. In particular, the study proposes an innovative project with variable dimensions that has the focal point in the Strait, in the networks, in the ecosystem services also, that belongs to the South and to the Mediterranean area. Were analyzed also the Recovery Plan and a vision post target 2026 to understand the future programmatic scenarios, trends and exogenous dynamics. From this analysis derives the awareness that we live and we will live in an era of great transformations and transitions. The relationship between land and sea is not lacking: the Mediterranean that unites and divides and a reflection on the effects of the revolution/regeneration, of the ecological and digital transition on cities, ports and on the mobility of goods and people. A necessary "destructive" innovation of the market. Our Hub I_S (Innovation South) project sets the conditions for making the Strait Area competitive and ready to face challenges.