Abitare domani: sfide e opportunità per la Smart City

Abstract

"The birth of agriculture marks the beginning of civilization, the formation of the two oldest professions in the world: the agronomist and the architect. The agronomist ... able to understand the quality of the land and to know how to treat the seeds, and the architect as deputy of the creative organization of the new human environment, such as the management of the space that encloses the area where activities and the lives of farmers are concentrated" (Sergio Di Cori Modigliani, “La narrativa esistenziale di Territorio zero”, in Territorio Zero, per una società a emissioni zero e chilometri zero, a cura di Livio De Santoli e Angelo Consoli, Minimum fax, Roma, 2013). Here it is the birth of the “Cities”, one of the three themes of the conference "Cities, Memory, People" where the session "Architecture, Sustainability, Energy ", which I moderated, was. Without the city the three themes of the session would not have brought the same. An isolated house in the countryside is an architecture, it is sustainable and produces its own energy, at least feed its inhabitants. We were interested, however, to focus on the mechanism that links the buildings to their being together in a cluster that has made the city where human relations weave, where sustainable conditions could be created, where it is possible to consume as well to produce energy.