Smart cities: un’analisi critica delle opportunità e dei rischi

<p>The term Smart City is to-date widely used<br />little clarity appears in the definition behind<br />that. Several approaches lead to a growing<br />emphasis on the combined use of geographic<br />information and communication technology<br />to build cognitive frameworks in city planning<br />and management. The present paper<br />tackles an effort of defining smart cities<br />and identifying theelements of smartness but<br />also the critical aspects related to the current<br />interpretation of the term. In particular<br />the risks of considering also the technological<br />layer of the Smart City as an innovative<br />element is observed, highlighting on the<br />contrary the need to consider Smart Cities<br />in terms of a major urban planning effort<br />to coordinate and harmonize the different<br />urban players sustained by ICT instruments.