097R_A multilevel method to assess and design the renovation and integration of smart cities (research summary)

Are you interested in smart cities to enhance quality of life for urban inhabitants?  Summary of the article titled A multilevel method to assess and design the renovation and integration of smart cities from 2015 by B. Mattoni, F. Gugliermetti, and F. Bisegna, published in the Sustainable Cities and Societies journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a smart city approach which tries to be holistic but specific. This article presents the assessment and design method where the city is considered as a whole human organism integrating each parts. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: The main objective of a smart city project is to visualise the city as a unique organism and coordinate all the different aspects in order to appropriately manage their reciprocal influences among the axes. The authors suggested three territorial cells – region, city and district, and five axes – economy, energy, environment, community and mobility, in which actions can be established based on the local context. All of this needs integration and interoperability of the different sectors to fully utilise the city’s network nature and involve all stakeholders, citizens, representatives and local businesses based on the smart city vision. You can find the article through this link. Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.001R - Smart cities You can find the transcript through this link. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay