ABSTRACT
The paper aims to elaborate a useful tool for tracking and monitoring urban transformations and their impacts. The tool is based on layers’ overlapping that combines the information related to settlement system and to mobility and technological networks: changing a parameter it is possible to evaluate the effects on the others.
Authors demonstrate that the overlap of urban modification and technology services allows a comprehensive and integrated vision of current and future situation and build the basis for a large-scale strategic planning.
The paper focuses on the identification of an ‘observatory’ of structural changes that allows mapping the urban modifications, to prevent possible conflicts and to manage infrastructure services at medium-long term. The tool allows defining rules and actions to be taken for the future of the city by simulating new scenarios. The urban development simulation helps to understand large-scale consequences of spatial planning decisions in a complex urban system.
