Smart city models and energy efficiency related to the metropolization of the city of Reggio Calabria

Abstract

Smart cities are those well performing cities that create, through structural and technological  innovation, the ideal conditions for setting up socio-economic enhancement and energy efficient values, with the aid of renewable energy and smart grid orientated smart sectors. A Smart City, in brief, is a city which combines and harmonizes specifically six characteristics, mobility, environment, people, living, governance, economy, based on the “intelligent” combination of the resources provided by the city itself and by the activities of the self-decisive, independent and aware citizens (in the case of a smart community).

This represents a significant challenge for the city and the local authorities. However which are the cities eligible for this role? Which are the characteristics and the city size?

This paper provides a tour of the possible candidates focusing in particular on the prerequisites, on the spheres involved, on the existing and feasible strategies necessary in order to set up a Smart Project. The second part of the document focuses on the possible application of smart features to the reality of metropolitan cities and specifically to the forthcoming metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria.