Roma Tre - Studi del Territorio/ Environmental Humanities - Master Universitario di Primo Livello - completed

Replate 2020是一个由欧盟资助的智慧城市项目，由欧洲大陆的中等城市共享，这是迄今为止最后一个此类国际合作伙伴关系。随着政治不确定性动摇欧洲，智能城市在伙伴城市佛罗伦萨和布里斯托尔扮演着统一框架的角色，尽管这两个城市的特点不同。对佛罗伦萨来说，它提供了一个恢复文艺复兴时期完美都市主义命运的机会，修复了它目前被认为低于欧洲标准的状况；对布里斯托尔来说，它提供了一个机会，确保其建立在贸易和制造业遗产基础上的现代、高效的形象。这两座城市都是技术实验的场所，但它们并不完全同步或对称。因此，拟开展的研究旨在通过比较研究，了解未来城市在制定、专家访谈、分析数据收集和处理以及城市之间的运营知识共享等方面的作用及其对城市规划的影响。我提出的这项研究涉及三个主要领域：城市地理、监视研究和图像数据综合体。它的主要目标是将“智能”城市定义为一个感知领域，通过专家的作用刺激地理知识，并通过政策制定者反过来改变地理知识。在这样做的过程中，本文旨在回答三个问题：-关于城市的地理知识是如何通过传感器和基础设施产生的？数据是如何收集的？-这些通过科学成像积极表达的知识是如何在当地部署的？它能成功搬迁吗？它解决了哪些规划上的紧急问题？-现在，通过“智能”的比喻，正在构建什么样的城市形象？作为一个地缘政治集合体，这会对欧洲产生怎样的影响？这项拟议中的研究旨在了解，一旦通过传感器和Wifi接入点收集了大数据，并在城市地区传播，关于这座城市的地理知识是如何产生的。要做到这一点，我预计将收集论文和科学报告，以完成对他们数据收集方法的批评。这个调查的另一个关键部分在于了解这些信息是如何存储和处理的，以便提取关于城市的可读知识。因此，地图和地名词典等可视化设备将根据关键的地图学原则进行研究。最后要回答的问题涉及专家如何运用这些见解，以构建将对正在研究的地区的未来发展产生实质性影响的业务总体规划和蓝图。为了理解和描述这种技术知识如何转化为可操作的计划，将采访来自适当机构的专家--如佛罗伦萨的Assessorato Urbanistic a和布里斯托尔的发展控制委员会。这项研究将使人们深入了解欧洲与智能城市化相关的领先项目之一的运营活跃核心。此外，由于围绕英国退欧的政治不确定性，在这个项目于2021年完工后，没有其他由欧盟资助的项目正在准备中。随着传感技术和大数据收集和共享在未来十年变得越来越普遍，拟议的研究为已经多产的智能城市主义领域提供了一种新的方法，因为到目前为止，还没有关于这场城市设计技术革命的作者的研究。

REplicate 2020 is an EU funded smart city project, shared by medium-sized cities across the continent, to date, the last international partnership of its kind. As political uncertainty shakes Europe, the smart city acts as a unifying framework in partner cities Florence and Bristol, despite their different characteristics. For Florence, it offers the chance to restore the fortunes of perfect Renaissance urbanism, repairing its current condition, perceived as below European standards; for Bristol, an occasion to secure its established modern, efficient image, based on a legacy of trade and manufacture. Both cities are sites of technological experimentation, but they are not perfectly synchronized or symmetrical. Therefore the proposed research aims to understand, through comparative study, the city of the future in the making, interviewing experts, analyzing data collection and processing and sharing of operational knowledge between cities, and its effects on urban planning. The study I propose connects three main areas: urban geography, surveillance studies, and the image-data complex. It's main goal is to define the 'smart' city as a field of perception that stimulates geographical knowledge - through the role of experts - and is in turn transformed by it - through policy makers. In doing so, the dissertation aims to answer three questions: - How is geographical knowledge about the city produced via sensors and infrastructures? How is data collected?- How is this knowledge, expressed actively by scientific imaging, deployed locally? Can it be successfully relocated? What planning urgencies does it address?- What image of the city is being constructed, right now, through the trope of 'smartness'? How does it effect Europe as a geo-political assemblage?The proposed research aims to understand how geographical knowledge about the city is generated, once big data have been collected through sensors and Wifi access points, disseminated in the urban area. To do so, I foresee to collect papers and scientific reports to complete a critique of their data collection methodologies. Another crucial part of this inquiry consists in understanding how this information is stored and treated, in order to extract readable knowledge about the city. Therefore, visualisations devices, like maps and gazetteers, will be studied according to critical cartography principles. The last questions to be answered concerns how experts deploy such insights, to structure operational masterplans and blueprints that will have material impact on the future development of the areas being studied. To comprehend and describe how such technologically informed knowledge is translated in an operative plan, experts from proper institutions - like Assessorato Urbanistica in Florence and the Development Control Committee in Bristol - will be interviewed.This research will grant insight in the operational active core of one of the leading programmes concerned with smart urbanism in Europe. Moreover, because of political uncertainty around Brexit, no other EU funded project of this kind is being prepared, after this one is completed in 2021. As sensing technologies and big data collection and sharing are meant to become more and more common in the next decade, the proposed study offers a new approach in the already prolific field of smart urbanism, since, as to date, no study is available focused on the authors of this technological revolution in urban design.