Metropolitan Areas and Smart Governance: Successful Initiatives and Critical Aspects towards Smart City

Authors

Rocco Papa
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale - Università di Napoli Federico II
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-1418
Carmela Gargiulo
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale - Università di Napoli Federico II
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6481-0908
Rosaria Battarra
Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4607-6329

Keywords:

Smart City, Metropolitan Areas, Smart Governance, Italy

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Publisher: FedOA Press (Federico II Open Access University Press). 

Series: Smart City, Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future. 

Pages: 597. 

Language: Italian.

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-22031

Abstract: The volume contains the results of the research project "Governance Analysis Project (GAP) for the Smart Energy City. The actualization of Smart Cities in the Metropolitan Areas of Europe and Italy” conducted within the PON “Smart Energy Master for the energy management of the territory” at the University Federico II of Naples (TeMA Lab of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering).

Smart Cities have gained increasing relevance in the scientific debate and in the national and international operational practice, emerging as one of the opportunities to rethink cities and, more generally, the life of urban communities. First reflections, researches and projects on the issue seem to converge towards the idea that a “smart” urban development should not only be a result of the yet necessary and unavoidable infrastructural endowment (physical capital) and of its continuing innovation, but also of the quality of human, social and environmental capital, conceived as strategic factors for development. A “smart” city is, primarily, a city able to effectively satisfy the needs of its citizens respecting the rules imposed by the environmental context.

It is in such a debate that the project GAP fits with the aim to address Smart Cities in light of the administrative reorganization of Italian large cities as a consequence of the Law 56/2014.

With a scientific approach, the volume provides a comprehensive and updated framework of how Italian and European Metropolitan cities are declining the Smart City issue and this thanks to the collection of a wide-ranging screening represented by more than 1.000 initiatives including researches, projects, interventions, technologies, etc. Furthermore, one original element of this research is that after an analysis conducted through indirect sources, a phase of dialogue with “stakeholders” was carried out (and of this there is a wide picture in the volume in which, by the way, are reported long excerpts of the interviews). This has enabled to give a clearer framework of what is now experimenting in Italian and European cities, avoiding being totally naïve for interventions and projects labelled as “smart”, but often lacking of innovative methods and contents.

The volume is articulated in 16 chapters:

  • two chapters present the comparison among 12 Italian metropolitan cities, instituted by Law 56/2014, with reference to the ongoing experimentations (chap.1) and indicators of smartness (chap.2);
  • one chapter (chap.15) illustrates how 5 European cities (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bristol and Bruxelles) are interpreting the Smart City model;
  • one chapter (chap.16) illustrates the ongoing experimentation in 3 Italian metropolitan cities (Milan, Venice and Bologna) directly explained by those who are carrying on the interventions (local technical bodies or associations);
  • the remainder chapters are dedicated each to one of the 12 metropolitan cities analyzed (Milan, Turin, Genoa, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bari, Reggio Calabria, Palermo and Catania).

 

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Author Biographies

Rocco Papa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale - Università di Napoli Federico II

Full Professor of Land Use Planning at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. Since 2007 is the Responsible Director of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment.

Carmela Gargiulo, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale - Università di Napoli Federico II

Associate professor of Urban Planning Techniques at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. She has been the Scientific Responsible of the Project Smart Energy Master for the energy management of territory financed by PON funds.

Rosaria Battarra, Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Researcher at the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Society of the National Research Council from 1998. Adjunct Professor at the School of Polytechnic and Basic Sciences. From 2007 to 2014 she has been responsible for the Land Use and Property Enhancement of the Urban Development Society Bagnolifutura S.p.A.

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