Language: Italian
Content: With “Urban Systems and the Future,” a glimpse is offered of what cities, city systems and metropolitan areas are and what they will be, whether they are world cities or small to medium-sized cities (also capable of being international players). Operationally, four routes to reading the city are proposed. The first looks at the “roof of the world” constituted by the four hundred world cities and identifies the role of organizations in managing the city and placing it in national and international network systems. With the second perspective, the authors observe the concrete ways in which technologies innovate and regulate cities. The third track centers the analysis of the city on the role that social groups, new or established, play in expanding the complexity of the city. In particular, the social groups consisting of immigrants, tourists, and children are observed.
In the concluding part, a theoretical approach is proposed that considers the city as a context of globalization and quality of life.
