| Title | Smart: Opportunities and Risks for Urban Development and Challenges for the African Continent |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 40309 |
| Authors | Pistocchi, F |
| Title | Smart: Opportunities and Risks for Urban Development and Challenges for the African Continent |
| Year | 2018 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | In recent decades there has been a proliferation of studies, research and approaches to the "smart" theme, viewed with interest as the "new" frontier of sustainability, which seeks to combine technological development with territorial development, social inclusion with environmental protection. This seems very stimulating for the development of the poorest regions of the Earth, which, following political instability, or economic difficulties, or structural and infrastructural backwardness, are lagging behind the richest and most stable regions, although in recent years they are witnessing a very fast GDP growth rate. Starting from some definitions of "city", I will examine the concept of "smart city" and will try to identify the approaches that best respond not only to objective needs for the development of a territory, but also to its qualitative characteristics, in so that "smart" urban and territorial planning projects represent a real and effective instrument of integrated and lasting development, also in urban and rural Africa. |
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