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urban planning

  • Venice
    • 26 October 2012
     
     

    Smart cities: innovation, sustainability, and quality of life

      Discussions at this ASL seminar got underway with the observation that the idea of smart cities has come to prominence worldwide as a driver of development in urban areas. Indeed, in the currently unfolding process of polycentric globalization, the smart city has become a linchpin in the innovation ecosystem, a network node capable of galvanizing new energies for growth, with obvious benefits for national economies.

    • Florence
      • 18 November 2011
       
       

      Cities, metropolises and regions: mobility, infrastructure and financial sustainability

        Opening the discussion at this ASL seminar dedicated to urban mobility and infrastructure sustainability was the observation that Europe’s cultural, social and economic model hinges, first and foremost, on cities. While urbanization is a comparatively recent phenomenon for many countries around the world, the history and structure of industry in Italy and Europe were among the first to develop to a more significant degree around cities and metropolises.

      • Venice
        • 22 May 2009
         
         

        The city of the future: relaunching the economy and governing a complex society

          This seminar, focusing on the topic of cities of the future, brought together specialists in the field of urbanism, local administrators, entrepreneurs, urban traffic experts and representatives from the welfare sector. Divided into three day-long sessions, dealing with governing complexity, competitiveness and quality of life respectively, the seminar raised various issues for debate and put forward a series of concrete proposals aimed at resolving the many problems afflicting the governance of Italian cities.