The Material “Container”: Structural and Infrastructural Aspects

The CA territorial outline consists in structures and infrastructures, facilities and regulations, all developing on different scales, from local and national to cross-border and trans-continental ones. It also relies on a definite practical culture, supporting and influencing any kind of development and territorial management. In CA spaces, this element is even more important considering its landlockedness and the location of the NIS, depending on international commerce and supply chains. It is evident that national individual planning inevitably involves neighbouring systems, creating an inseparable network of connections. It must also be considered that a territorial network of this kind is a permanent one in practice, since the hardware of a country cannot be changed in the short term, but only through careful programming in the middle long term. Therefore, it is comprehensible that the new territorial system that developed from the one of Soviet origin, still appears today as fragmented because of the overlapping of the new geopolitical fragmentation. On this basic schema, the NIS has recently started an impressive programme of public works of particular importance.