Our cities aren’t just bricks, they’re communities.
The article co-authored with Chiara Sonzogni on Digital Agenda explores how digital participatory urban planning is transforming urban design: platforms like FirstLife enable collaborative mapping and transparent decisions, putting people at the center of
change and breaking down space-time barriers.
This could be the true revolution of smart cities: placing citizens, not technology, at the heart of urban transformation, moving beyond “hard” cities equipped only with sensors, towards “soft” cities, built on collective vision, inclusion, and sustainability.
