Networks, ecosystems and creativity: towards new proactive models of advanced sustainable development

In opposition to the traditional dialectical contrast between ‘polydiffuse’ and ‘monocom- pact’ models, nowadays a new approach suggests the need to work with new intertwined, networked models capable of referring to diversified polynuclear systems showing a dis- continuous nodal development and interacting with landscape in an integrated manner. Thus, the orientation of such multipolar action (between urban and geographical struc- tures, global systems and local subsystems, individual and general trends), inherent to current ‘multiurban’ territories, demands the strategic conception of new concertation frameworks and also of new development criteria and new directional schemes that can detect potential situations –strategic and environmental conditions– in the territorial systems.