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    Avenida da Ponte: Knowledge of the City as a Tool for the Design of an Unresolved Place

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    The article analyses the two unrealised projects - by Fernando Távora in 1955 and Álvaro Siza in 2000 - for Avenida da Ponte in Porto and the public space project underlying the construction of the Casa dos 24. This analysis has made it possible to define how the historical and morphological knowledge of the city becomes an operative and compositional instrument of the project and at the same time is not a presupposition of immobilism, revealing the potential for a process of transformation of urban places updated to today's needs. This article is excerpted from the writer's doctoral thesis: A. Fanfoni, La persistenza del fenomeno dell'architettura nella "Città delle Costanti. L’attualità della lezione di Fernando Távora per la definizione di temi e strumenti utili al progetto degli spazi pubblici e dei luoghi urbani verso le linee guida di Smart City in Emilia-Romagna Università di Parma: Parma 2023 (Tutor Dario Costi, co-tutor Giovanni Leoni)

    Glossary of Contemporary City Terms. A Critical Selection of Definitions in the Literature Towards the City of People 4.0

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    The drafting of a Glossary of Terms for the Contemporary City stems from the need, perceived by the Scientific Committee of the Smart City 4.0 Sustainable Lab, to collect, catalogue and critically analyse the vast semantic spectrum of concepts and terms used in the literature to describe city development, organisation and control models from the start of the 21st century to the present day

    Smart City or Wise Town? Conversations on the City of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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    Smart City 4.0 Sustainable LAB identified a number of internationally recognised experts who have studied and are studying city issues from very different perspectives. They were asked various questions, some of them common, that question them on the role of technology, the meaning of the Smart City and the possibility that beyond the fast city promised by the Smart City, there could be a Wise Town, i.e. a slow and reflective city, attentive to social relations
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