Title: Planning the Digital City (the rising up of the M.E-tropolis)
Abstract: A lot of urban functions (commerce, health, education, finance, etc.) are transferring from the real city to the network, through a process called functional “virtualization” (Fistola, 1999), a consistent part of their services for the user generating, in this way, new telematic activities (e-commerce, telemedicine, home banking, on line trading, etc.). The technological innovation has made available products and trials that are assembled in the city and that are quickly spreading itself inside the different fields of the urban activity. A kind of new urban dimension is growing up therefore, already called in different ways (intelligent city, city of bits, virtual city, digital city, etc.) built by electronic places (town hall, bank, library, hospital, etc.) accessible by the net: the M.E-tropolis (Fistola, 2001). By taking that into consideration, from a town planning point of view, it is necessary to envisage how the scenario of the urban system will be in the future. The adoption of a systemic approach could be useful in order to define a new interpretative model of the city since it seems to offer, by looking at the physical reality, olistically the best opportunity for envisaging the interrelations between the elements of the system (Bertuglia 1991). Moving from this assumption it is possible to sub-divide the urban system in some subsystems. In particular, it is possible to define three different subsystems: a physical subsystem, a functional subsystem, and a perceptive subsystem. In this sense it has been formalized the “three city theory” (Beguinot, 1993), that may characterize a representative city for each of the mentioned subsystems: the stone city, the city of the relations and the city of men. Starting from this premise, it seems important in a town planning point of view, to formulate hypotheses and proposals concerning: • new interpretative models of the urban system that allows to foresee its possible evolutions in relationship to the impacts of the technological innovation; • new way to understand the functional virtualization inside the city; • new approach to the new relationship between M.E-tropolis and man. The M.E-tropolis is reasing, it’s important to envisage from now new way to manage its development.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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