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Competitive Urban Models
Raffaella Riva Sanseverino
Abstract
The smart city model is here described according to the most recent studies on
the topic. Indices and numerical features concretely evaluate the different
aspects of this model in two analyses whose results are reported and commented
in this chapter.
1.1
Smart City Model
Technological and inter-connected, but also sustainable, comfortable, attractive,
safe, in one word ''smart'': this is how the smart city looks like, a model of city on
which, in Europe and in the world, governments are betting to provide a balanced
urban development keeping up with the demand of welfare, coming from the
middle class.
Aiming at technological innovation to improve management of urban processes
and quality of life of citizens, this is the direction followed by some local admin-
istrations in Europe, that are starting projects, and setting agreements to re-draw
cities. In relation to the objectives fixed by the EU, supported by 'pacts' and formal
'commitments', all cities are involved in this transformation process that should
turn them in different ways in smart cities.
