Creative and inclusive centrality for the metropolitan city

The paper intends to conduct a debate on the role that the metropolitan city can take in terms of inclusion, creativity and competitiveness in areas such as that of Calabria, characterized by conurbations formed by a central core and a larger area covered with small settlements connected and related between them. The development of the thesis will explain briefly how the territorial and urban polycentrism can be a model for a metropolitan city, dynamic and open to innovation, but above all shared and co created by the different actors. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.