| Abstract |
Increasingly more often Smarter Cities are now being included in the broader concept of Smarter Planet, a more intelligent, technological and interconnected planet. In this sense, IBM claimed that (artificial) intelligence could be introduced into the systems and processes that are already running the world, in devices that are not considered to be computers: cars, household appliances, motorways, power grids, clothes, even integrated with nature, such as agricultural or water networks. The Smarter Cities of IBM are characterized by a form of intelligence applied to different themes such as mobility, sustainability, territory, education and urban security. These are clearly key issues in urban and territorial planning and need to be rethought, not only through the technological upgrading of urban knowledge but also through a total change of paradigm. As Klaus Kunzmann (2014) noted "The development of new paradigms has become a passion for planners, architects, urban planners and environmentalists", a passion through which he desired for better cities. In this sense, the concept of smart applied to cities is the last of numerous urban paradigms: the city sustainable, eco-city, the compact city, the diffused city, the resilient city. The new paradigm of the smart city can only be supported by a new type of urban planner who adds to his traditional tools, those of global communication technologies, new digital network infrastructures, so as to transfer at least a part of the managing of the urban space into a flow of information that has a final aim of the residents and a smart tool (phone, tablet, etc.) with which to interact with and experience the new public space. |