World Cities Day, London is the "smartest"

On World Cities Day, a study conducted by Easypark group reveals which are the most sustainable and technological on the planet.

• World Cities Day is celebrated on 31 October.
• A study conducted by Easypark group reveals which are the most "smart" on a global level.
• The company, leader in the sector of digital solutions for parking and parking, has drawn up a ranking of the 150 urban centers that best use technology to be more sustainable and livable.
• In first place among metropolitan areas with more than three million inhabitants is London;Milan is 37th.

The theme of the 2021 edition of the World Cities Day, which is celebrated every year on October 31st, is “better city, better life”.The challenge launched by the United Nations, which established the anniversary in 2014, is to create more inclusive cities, capable of adapting to climate changes and the resulting consequences, such as extreme weather phenomena.The eleventh among them Sustainable Development Goals this is exactly what it's about.

There technology it is certainly an ally in the search for more livable cities and better lives.It also allows us to mitigate the impact of a metropolis on the environment - through the reduction of energy or water waste, the use of new materials and solutions for asustainable construction, the use of cutting-edge waste management models –.Finally, it can provide us with useful strategies to defend inhabited centers from effects of global warming.

The ranking of “smart” cities

Because of this Easypark group, a company that has long been committed to innovation in terms of mobility, conducted a study to identify the cities that have managed to exploit technology in the best way and which, for this reason, are defined smart cities.The 150 selected locations have been divided into three rankings of 50 positions each.The first list includes metropolitan areas with more than three million inhabitants;the second concerns those with a population between 600 thousand and three million inhabitants;the last includes urban centers with 50-600 thousand people.

At the top of the three rankings are, respectively, London (United Kingdom), Copenhagen (Denmark) e Lund (Sweden).In the ranking led by London we find two Italian cities: Milan in 37th position, followed by Rome in the 40th. Bologna closes the ranking led by Copenhagen, while they are found in the list of smaller agglomerations Pisa And Trent.

The criteria used by Easypark group

Easypark has collected and analyzed data from sources such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Economist and the scientific journal The Lancet.Four parameters were examined:there digital life, i.e. the adoption of technology by the population, public administration and the healthcare system;there mobility, evaluating public transport, parking and traffic management;the'private sector technological infrastructure, for example checking the quality of internet connectivity;and the environmental sustainability.Alongside the three main rankings, some additional lists have been drawn up making specific reference to these four parameters.Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, for example, came first for energy use from renewable sources.Milan is 13th in that field.

The role of urban centers in the climate crisis

“While European metropolitan areas perform well when all categories are considered overall, the study shows that Scandinavian cities in particular they all have very high scores.It is clear that these countries are at the forefront of adopting new technologies,” he commented Johan Birgersson, CEO of Easypark group.“There are many governments that are concentrating their efforts on responding to the climate crisis, and it is clear that many solutions arise first in the largest cities and then be applied to the rest of the nations.”

This is precisely the role of metropolises, considering that they are becoming increasingly more populated:lead the fight against climate change and act as a trailblazer in the search for resolution strategies.It was precisely with this idea that it was born C40, a network that connects almost one hundred large cities committed to this front, founded on the awareness that i mayors they can achieve more by working together than alone.In this race, whoever comes first in the ranking does not get on the podium:he must pass the baton to whoever comes next.