Abstract
Future cities will become a complex system of variable geometry, where ICT is the main driver of all connections, an intelligent tool that enables the dialogue between different systems, the bonding agent of the smart city. The man still remains the main actor, because he redesigns his habits, corrects his behaviors, shares ideas and solutions based on continuous feedback from the environment. The areas where there are large urban innovations are the field of mobility and energy and ICT of course. Approaches to intelligent cities implementations change, because they are powered by the aspects related to communication. The dimension of the smart districts appears to be the only convincing module, able to test systems, technologies and processes. The most interesting interface to investigate is the relationship between the new city module—infact the smart district—and the citizen, city-user and actor of all urban transformations/changes; the smart city becomes progressively more closer to people, more human.
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Fab Lab (English Fabrication Laboratory) is a small workshop that offers personalized services of digital fabrication. A fab lab is generally provided with a series of computerized instruments able to realize, in a flexible and semi-automatic, a wide range of objects. Among them are technology products generally considered the exclusive preserve of mass production.
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Farm Cultural Park http://www.farm-culturalpark.com/.
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Decreto Crescita 2.0/2012.
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The interest in the UC phenomenon is linked to the evolution that these facilities can represent for local government authorities. A good opportunity to try out new forms of participatory and deliberative democracy, not limited to the aspects of passive communicative-informative, but aimed at building shared guidelines on new urban policies (www.urban-center.org).
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High tech hubs are physical and virtual environments in which technology startups can grow quickly. The idea is to put in the same place entrepreneurs who want to invest in new technologies and young people with new ideas and skills.
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The author of this chapter has been part of I-Next project, winner of the competitive national Call Smart cities and communities (2012–2015), drafting the Sustainable Urban Building Regulations for Palermo (Italy) tool of local authorities to achieve sustainability goals.
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Milan, Turin, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Bari, Naples, Reggio Calabria, Rome—and 4 metropolitan cities of the regions with a special statute—Cagliari, Catania, Messina and Palermo. The objectives are: increasing sustainable mobility in urban areas, reduction of energy consumption in public facilities, the spread of digital services (joined up services) and the promotion of social inclusion and poverty reduction interventions. In particular, interventions for the city of Palermo regarding the Integrated Territorial Area 3 (Maredolce, Brancaccio, Bandita) and the Integrated Territorial Area 6 (Gasometer, Macello and Romagnolo) and, in small part, even the municipalities of Misilmeri and Villabate.
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Riva Sanseverino, R. (2017). Experiencing the Smart City Concept: The Challenge of Intelligent Districts. In: Riva Sanseverino, E., Riva Sanseverino, R., Vaccaro, V. (eds) Smart Cities Atlas. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47361-1_2
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