PASSIVE URBAN STRATEGIES

AN INSTRUMENT FOR SMARTCITIES

Abstract

In order to achieve self?sufficient, sustainable and intelligent cities, it is essential that urban planning and technological development should be coordinated, providing innovative urban solutions in the area of sustainable urban development (Smart Environment), the incorporation of the information technologies in the management of services (Smart Economy), creating participatory spaces for collaboration and innovation (Smart Governance) and the formation of responsible citizens (Smart Citizen). All of these technologies should be developed within a urban planning structured to promote a new model of sustainable city.
To improve the energy efficiency of a building, it’s much more effective to have passive systems that use active strategies. Cities behave in the same way; urban passive systems are an innovative tool both for new sustainable urban development as rebalancing consolidated urban models, optimizing existing resources and increasing the efficiency of new technologies applied in the city. “Innovation should be encouraged to support the transition to the Cities of Tomorrow. The Cities of Tomorrow should be disparate, cohesive and attractive cities, they should be green and healthy and should be places conducive to a strong and inclusive economy.” (Hermant?deCallataÿ & Svanfeldt, 2011).

Urban passive systems (such as the Sustainable Polycentric System) are based on establishing desirable numerical patterns to implement, in a gradual way, an urban model that based on sustainable mobility and through a balanced distribution of the urban model gets living, compact and various cities of short distances. Through a complex systemic analysis these essential parameters have been determined to get balanced urban models within a compact urban model where present and future activities have space so that our cities evolve towards the ideal of the Sustainable Smart City. "The task is to promote the urban life of citizens, housed - hopefully - in concentrations dense and diverse enough to offer them a solid opportunity to develop urban life” (Jacobs, 2012)