Smart Energy in the Smart City Urban Planning for a Sustainable Futu
This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects. In addition, it aims to illustrate how the conce
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Rocco Papa Romano Fistola Editors
Smart Energy in the Smart City Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future
Green Energy and Technology
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Rocco Papa Romano Fistola •
Editors
Smart Energy in the Smart City Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future
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Editors Rocco Papa Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Naples Federico II Naples Italy
ISSN 1865-3529 Green Energy and Technology ISBN 978-3-319-31155-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31157-9
Romano Fistola Department of Engineering University of Sannio Benevento Italy
ISSN 1865-3537
(electronic)
ISBN 978-3-319-31157-9
(eBook)
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Preface
This collection of papers is about the energy dimension of a smart city. Its goal is to mark a boundary around the concept of “city smartness”, considered with regard to the energy issue and the town planning point of view. From another perspective, the aim of this collection of writings by the main Italian research groups in the field of urban sciences, is to define how the new concept of a smart city can successfully open a new understanding of urban systems and progress towards a new style of management for our metropolis. If we have been able to see and participate in the smart city debate, one that has been spreading all over the world during the last 2 or 3 years, it is possible to argue that the main factors of this new concept regarding human settlements are energy and technology. The technological dimension of the smart city movement is inherent to the city itself and represents the engine that moves the urban system in its spatial and temporal development. But today’s main i
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