Smart City: utopia o realtà? Comprendere l’evoluzione per comprendere la trasformazione / Smart City: utopia or reality? Understanding the evolution to understand the trasformation

The Smart City word borns as an answer to some important problems that the XXI century city is asked to answer: population growing, urbanisation, climatic changes. The development of the XX century city was carried on in a deregulated way, without considering that the “Earth good” was limited and its ecosystem breakable. It is into this crisis climate that the concept of  intelligent city  borns and develops. The paper aims to study this issue from the origins of the word and from the historic evolution that made the concept real.