Energy has been at the core of the EU integration since its inception. However, following the path of a shooting star, the key role of energy gradually declined over time, to the level of being basically left out from the Treaties, at least up to Lisbon. The EU has struggled to circumnavigate...

The subject of this paper is: how large metropolitan areas in the South ofItaly can become smart? They are suffering an endemic crisis in terms of socialcohesion, sustainability of processes, quality and facilities. Nonetheless, theyhave a large and often devalued cultural and social capital,...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the innovative clusters mostly for the local communities such as smart and creative communities/cities. The first part of the paper is dedicated to a brief literature review in order to create the necessary conditions for debating the...

The level of interest in smart cities is growing, and the recent literature on this topic (Holland, 2008; Caragliu et al., 2009, Nijkamp et al., 2011 and Lombardi et al., 2012) identifies a number of factors that characterise a city as smart, such as economic development, environment, human capital,...

The concept of “smart city†has attracted considerable attention lately. Still, common definitions are hard to find, and there is a lack of formal models to guide their design. This paper introduces the architecture of Event-driven Smart City, the kind of city where digital artifacts...

The use of information and communication technologies to develop services for optimizing urban networks (energy, water, transport ...) and develop new services such as urban mobility services is one of the most promising area of territorial innovations. This is the field of smart cities. But...

Cities are crucial actors in shaping economic systems, being engines of economic growth. Not surprisingly, cities have become an autonomous field of policy intervention in order to address the present global crisis through a governance process capable to achieve economic, environmental and...

In the late twentieth century, cities like Manchester, seen as the ‘original, modern’ [<CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1</CitationRef>] world industrial city, faced serious challenges in terms of how to respond to the massive economic restructuring that was taking place. On the one hand, Manchester needed to respond to the highest rates...</citationref>

Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the...

The new planning paradigm of “intelligent cities” is replacing the principles of smart growth and new urbanism which have inspired urban planning over the past 20 years. The “Intelligent Thessaloniki” case study highlights how a city is adopting this new paradigm and how the deployment...