The role of the urban project in the transition from city to smart city. Case studies in Umbria

). If the smart city of the 21st century will not be built only through the mechanical application of innovative technologies that implement the functionality of the city (which certainly can improve certain processes of urban development), it will depend precisely on the intelligent use of the urban project which, if it is such, it will be able to draw from the body of the city itself, from its fabric, the rules for a better and compatible construction in a logic of harmonization of the individual parts and the temporary reuse of underused and degraded areas. As we know, the new paradigm of the smart city refers to a model of interpretation of reality that enjoys great success because it is everything a city should be: sustainable, intelligent, competitive, inclusive, creative, hyper-connected, open, etc. Designing urban redevelopment in smart cities means building a 'horizontal' vision, operating on two 'registers': on the one hand, on the level of strategic planning and, on the other, on that of targeted design in an inclusive and creative logic. of microeconomies. An approach that finds in the concept of temporariness the measure to intelligently rethink the nature of the public space within which the ways of use are the materials of a new paradigm.