EDITORIAL PREFACE - Mobile phone data for exploring spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories

This latest TeMA Journal Special Issue ‘Mobile phone data to explore spatio-temporal transformations in contemporary territories’ takes up the focus of the journal in a stringent logical-temporal sequence. The volume, in fact, offers the scientific community an in-depth study on the increasingly relevant relationship between new communication technologies and the governance of urban and territorial transformations, and aims to develop a cognitive framework on the evolution of digital communications in the urban and territorial sphere and on their use for the knowledge of settlement phenomena.