Smartness, new territories and new organisations
A summary of the concepts and applications of the smart approach in a thesis
Smartness means a way of understanding urban and territorial development which expresses a complex balance between environmental and sustainability requirements, resilience, adaptability, affordability, productivity and liveability. It means the Smart City, therefore, but today also Smart Land and Smart Community, driven by an uninterrupted dialogue between different realties, which complement each other, bring out the best in each other, engage in discussion to bring something different and better to life each time. The concept and reality of smartness are certainly complex, requiring a good understanding before appropriate implementations can be achieved. Reading “Smart City e Smart Land: politiche locali per uno sviluppo sostenibile” (Smart City and Smart Land: local policies for sustainable development) – research by Matteo Paccagnella defended at the University of Padua – helps in understanding something more about all this.
Paccagnella starts from the consideration that three quarters of the public in Europe currently live in urban areas and it is estimated that by 2050 towns and cities will be home to 85% of the entire European population. The need to rethink locations in a ‘smart’, sustainable way arises from these figures. At the same time, this must take into account the need to reorganise territories, overcoming “the administrative architecture made up of borders now incapable of containing the consequences of phenomena which are global in scope.”
In Paccagnella’s view, this prospect must concern everyone – the public, local authorities, companies, associations and research centres – in their respective roles and also implies a change of pace in the culture of civil life as well as in business culture.
Matteo Paccagnella’s work attempts to lend order to the wealth of knowledge accumulated on the subject to date, starting from one concept: smartness is effectively a “new Renaissance” made up of social, economic and governance aspects that must be reimagined. After establishing the basic concepts, the research looks more deeply at the transition from Smart City to Smart Land and closes with the analysis of two case studies: Bologna and Turin.
Smart City e Smart Land: politiche locali per uno sviluppo sostenibile
Matteo Paccagnella
Thesis, University of Padua, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, Three-year degree course in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights, 2024
A summary of the concepts and applications of the smart approach in a thesis
Smartness means a way of understanding urban and territorial development which expresses a complex balance between environmental and sustainability requirements, resilience, adaptability, affordability, productivity and liveability. It means the Smart City, therefore, but today also Smart Land and Smart Community, driven by an uninterrupted dialogue between different realties, which complement each other, bring out the best in each other, engage in discussion to bring something different and better to life each time. The concept and reality of smartness are certainly complex, requiring a good understanding before appropriate implementations can be achieved. Reading “Smart City e Smart Land: politiche locali per uno sviluppo sostenibile” (Smart City and Smart Land: local policies for sustainable development) – research by Matteo Paccagnella defended at the University of Padua – helps in understanding something more about all this.
Paccagnella starts from the consideration that three quarters of the public in Europe currently live in urban areas and it is estimated that by 2050 towns and cities will be home to 85% of the entire European population. The need to rethink locations in a ‘smart’, sustainable way arises from these figures. At the same time, this must take into account the need to reorganise territories, overcoming “the administrative architecture made up of borders now incapable of containing the consequences of phenomena which are global in scope.”
In Paccagnella’s view, this prospect must concern everyone – the public, local authorities, companies, associations and research centres – in their respective roles and also implies a change of pace in the culture of civil life as well as in business culture.
Matteo Paccagnella’s work attempts to lend order to the wealth of knowledge accumulated on the subject to date, starting from one concept: smartness is effectively a “new Renaissance” made up of social, economic and governance aspects that must be reimagined. After establishing the basic concepts, the research looks more deeply at the transition from Smart City to Smart Land and closes with the analysis of two case studies: Bologna and Turin.
Smart City e Smart Land: politiche locali per uno sviluppo sostenibile
Matteo Paccagnella
Thesis, University of Padua, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, Three-year degree course in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights, 2024