The future of the city/cities

Abstract The “smart city” or the “future city” has to balance “new” needs through the widespread and original ICT use (information and communication technology) in some fields such as mobility, environment, energy efficiency and so in urban and local regeneration. A city planned using this approach will have a shared and arranged governance where investment will be used for sustainable development respecting intrinsic features of endogenic resources (starting from natural and landscape ones) and unconditionally respecting socioeconomic and environmental potentialities of urban places. Planning a smart city is planning a sustainable system respecting the environment and interpreting social life areas again, connecting new technologies, traditions and the urban places embedded vocation. The city has to be reviewed and replanned. Nowadays we talk about “smart city”: systematic planning action where a city is an organized whole and which employs “smart” technologies to make the urban places sustainable from environmental and social point of view. This prototype is efficient thanks to participation and multidisciplinary knowledge. 1.