The Smart Socially Innovative City Advancing in Italy

Abstract

Cities of tomorrow are planning a smart city framework in order to drive urban growth and social innovation. The aim of the study is to elucidate that cities aim at dealing with urban innovation issues, designing a smart city view in order to shape the city an urban community as an engine of collaborative and innovative spaces. The study relies on the analysis of one case study. The city of Firenze is rethinking on the urban future, adopting a smart city framework that supports a collaborative view for social innovation, enabling smartness as a capability to develop social issues and contribute to urban value. The findings elucidate that a smart city framework enables the city to evolve as urban community and engine of social innovation, shaping urban collaborative meeting places for innovation.