Resumen de Wise Cities: Modelling the Local Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals
The notion of wise cities emerges from growing evidence that smartness is failing to create more inclusive, sustainable and democratic cities.
One of the big challenges for this century’s urban planners and managers is to design a urban model that is human-centred and takes into account each city’s idiosyncrasy and cultural trajectory in order to avoid a “one-size fits all” approach.
The wise city is culturally oriented, as it envisages urban development policies and practices tailored to the citizens’ cultural background, socioeconomic context and environmental fitness.
The wise city overcomes the pro-technology or anti-technology dichotomy. It is techno-culturally wise by studying the experience, consciousness and meaning derived from mutual interaction between people and tools and/or technology.
Inequality, migration, climate change and the rise of global cities in the governance architecture are global transformations likely to impact the wise city in the short term.
Cities are an impressive lab for solutions to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
The ultimate goal of the wise city model should be the improvement of the citizens’ quality of life, including their happiness and subjective well-being, in resilient cities.
