Twin digital cities: la vera “Intelligenza” della città digitale nel XXI secolo

Abstract

Cities are ‘living’ organisms that born, grow, change rapidly and age (Pagani, Chiesa 2016); they are increasingly complex systems linked to changing demographic, economic and environmental changes. Urban complexity therefore requires planning capable of rapidly providing suitable responses to the constantly evolving human needs. The Big Data revolution offers an active innovative approach to building processes and urban and territorial planners, making them able to face the fluidity of contemporary urban spaces and the urgent challenges related to sustainable development. This essay is part of this debate by offering a survey on how Big Data relate to human activities and the built environment and by producing a qualitative change, supporting on the one hand planning and on the other hand a regenerative impact on the development of urban settlements.