What are the smart cities and what Italian towns are closer to the concept

Smart cities, cities of the future, able to face the new challenges such as globalization, the economic crisis and sustainable development, while maintaining the high quality of the environment and mobility, with an eye to social cohesion, technology, creativity and the freedom of its inhabitants.

The model also want to strive Italian cities, although the territory is extremely diverse and makes it almost impossible to fit a schema and a standard model of smart city in all its urban realities, as is the case with success for other European and overseas.

A research carried out has analyzed a group of 54 Italian cities, mainly province or regional capitals and medium-large (with more than 90,000 inhabitants), dividing it into 6 broad categories, based on common characteristics and possible solutions.

The indicators examined that characterize the smart city include: water, air, waste, urban greening, energy, health, mobility, logistics, real estate and quality of life. This has allowed the identification of the 6 categories.

1. Environment. These include medium-sized cities, the Centre-North (including Sassari). Here, the local administration has made a major planning for the protection of the territory and the environment, acquiring adequate tools.

2. Well-being. This cluster also includes health care and real estate assets but does not record a significant geographical predominance. Surprisingly, the presence of Naples, reported to offer excellence in health care, which extends to the whole of South Italy.

3. City ideals. There are four cities in this sector, medium-sized and all located in the North: Bergamo, Brescia, Padua and Trento. At a level of very high quality of life and all indicators characterizing a smart city turn out to be highly above the average of the other Italian cities.

4. Energy. In this sector there is a strong presence of the cities of Southern Italy, especially Puglia (Taranto, Lecce, Foggia, Andria), which has major investments and incentives in renewable energy (wind power).

5. In Becoming. Again, there is the presence of prevalent city of the South, that despite recording indicators are not positive, they chose to invest in a specificity, to raise their performance and chasing the standard smart city.

6. Mobility. In this sector dominate the metropolitan cities (Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Bologna, Venice), which have adopted sustainable mobility programs forcibly made necessary due to the strong pressure of traffic and urban pollution. In these cities also adds Bolzano.

What will be the future developments?

The fund will require more investment is the quality of life, which depends critically on the mobility. For this reason the city will develop three-year plans for sustainability, with an investment of about 2.5% of their GDP. In particular, we will focus on sustainable transport and the creation of infrastructures that facilitate.

 

Followed by investments in real estate and urban regeneration, although at a great distance with respect to mobility. Traffic congestion is still the barrier to be overcome, to launch the urban landscape to Italian standard really smart.

 

 

25/11/2012

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Translated via software

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Source:

Italian version of CercaGeometra.it

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