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New Governance Through Digital Platforms and the Old Urban Planning Process in Italy

Version 1 : Received: 2 May 2021 / Approved: 6 May 2021 / Online: 6 May 2021 (12:27:35 CEST)

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Bellone, C.; Naselli, F.; Andreassi, F. New Governance Path through Digital Platforms and the Old Urban Planning Process in Italy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6911. Bellone, C.; Naselli, F.; Andreassi, F. New Governance Path through Digital Platforms and the Old Urban Planning Process in Italy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6911.

Abstract

Current acceleration in digital innovations, unexpected challenges in our social interactions, acceleration to virtualization, limitation in our physical spaces, and unpredictable changes in our Old lifestyles - as originated from the COVID-19 global pandemic 2020 - continue to provide us with a framework, rapidly updating under our eyes, of the modifications our world is undergoing by pursuing into a New “digital age”. Or, as many scholars say nowadays, into the New Normal! These are shared and deep changes that concretely stress their effects on how ideally a city should function. Forcing us to reflect on the capability to achieve shared choices and visions for the future by taking vantage from both the New digital platforms and New suddenly opened paths. In the pages of this article authors, through different but shared viewpoints, propose an answer to the topic of "Governance 3.0", addressing the attempt of a radical change of those paradigms, now consolidated, within which the spatial dimensions, in which we live and act, are shaped. Also analyzing the relationship between Technocracy and Democracy as defined by Khanna, it is argued that it is possible to realize new forecasts and acquire a more democratic and participatory (inclusive) dimension of Governance, also thanks to new digital technologies, by exploring the general unconscious "feeling" of people, through anonymous data collection and without any direct or indirect interference with it. The analysis of the "Sentiment", already developed in other fields but easily exportable within the urban discipline, can be considered as the beginning of hybrid practices where digital and analogic find a compromise to make the "Urbs" more attractive and inclusive, while the "Civitas", connected to the Internet, can contribute to the optimization of services, of the "Polis" and a new social/spatial reorganization.

Keywords

Urban planning Italy; Governance 3.0; New Digital Platforms; Sentiment Analysis

Subject

Social Sciences, Anthropology

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