UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD: demographics, wealth, GDP, geopolitical, economic and environmental issues in particular. SMART CITIES: NEW OR ALREADY EXISTING?
SMART CITIES OR SMART COMMUNITIES? ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVING SMART CITIES: transport, housing, urban demography, various flows.
Zoom on autonomous transport and its technical and moral acceptability; how far do you accept that the machine decides? Decision criteria.

THE GREAT TRENDS OF COUNTRIES LEADERS IN SMART CITIES: data collection and processing (big data) and their optimal uses; citizen urban dwellers and social creativity

INTERCULTURALITY IN SMART CITIES: decoding of national choices, issues of cohabitation of different cultures in smart cities.

EXPECTATIONS ON SMART CITIES: WHAT MODELS ? WHAT EXPERIENCES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT AND IMPROVED?
Achievements and projects in the World.
Concrete cases studied in class.