Smart City or Wise Town? Conversations on the City of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Smart City 4.0 Sustainable LAB identified a number of internationally recognised experts who have studied and are studying city issues from very different perspectives. They were asked various questions, some of them common, that question them on the role of technology, the meaning of the Smart City and the possibility that beyond the fast city promised by the Smart City, there could be a Wise Town, i.e. a slow and reflective city, attentive to social relations. Contributions come from civil economist Stefano Zamagni, media sociologist Derrick De Kerckhove, autonomous driving expert Alberto Broggi, constitutional jurist Giovanni Maria Flick and philosopher Sebastién Marot, who have accepted this invitation and provided very valuable insights for the research that the laboratory is conducting on the critical-cultural foundations of the contemporary city.