2013/02/24 by Luca Salvati, Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli, Salvati, Luca +9
Engineering · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Smart Cities and Technologies #Urban Planning and Valuation #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
paper · doi:10.6092/1970-9870/1496
In the quest for achieving sustainable cities, Intelligent and Knowledge City Programmes (ICPs and KCPs) represent cost-efficient strategies for improving the overall performance of urban systems. However, even though nobody argues on the desirability of making cities “smarter”, the fundamental questions of how and to what extent can ICPs and KCPs contribute to the achievement of urban sustainability lack a precise answer. In the attempt of providing a structured answer to these interrogatives, this paper presents a methodology developed for investigating the modalities through which ICPs and KCPs contribute to the achievement or urban sustainability. Results suggest that ICPs and KCPs efficacy lies in supporting cities achieve a sustainable urban metabolism through optimization, innovation and behavior changes.