Rethinking Smart Green Cities for Knowledge-Led Urban Innovation

Abstract

Cities of tomorrow are rethinking on the urban planning, adopting a smart city view to drive green urban innovation and growth. The study aims to elucidate that cities are planning a smart city view to make the city a smart green and knowledge-led urban community, an engine of collaborative spaces for innovation. The study relies on the analysis of one single case study related to the smart city framework as urban planning that aims at designing the future pathway to drive urban innovation. Florence is redesigning the urban planning, adopting a smart city view that supports collaborative approaches in order to make green and wealthy urban spaces and communities. The findings elucidate that cities may identify the smart city framework to make a smart green urban community, leading to the city an engine of social innovation, and developing collaborative pathways that contribute to social innovation and value. The smart city urban planning enables the city to make a smart green community in order to develop knowledge-led urban development and innovation.