New urban communities and the strategic value of knowledge. How networks are changing the urban future by offering an emergency way out

The thematic articulation of the following research work is based on the awareness that a new urban cycle is now at the gates, and that the urban planning discipline is faced with a double challenge, which on the one hand requires mobilizing resources intellectuals available to analyze in depth the radical changes that are taking place, or that will mature in the near future also as a result of the very recent health emergency, on the other hand it requires to insert the relationship between public policies and the plan design in a finally coherent and long-term framework. We intend to provide a working hypothesis and a contribution of ideas. The study of problems, increasingly evident in the current government of cities, has now become such a delicate and important phenomenon, so much so that it defines the century that opens the third millennium, the century of cities. Complexity conditions the urban phenomenon, in which the architecture of cities and the human factor that consume their existence in them interact.