A back step before proposing smart interventions. Fitting people needs with innovations

Nowadays, one of the main subjects of city planning is the environmental impact cities’ transformation into smart cities, characterized by an innovative use of technologies and synergies’ development between the public and the private sectors. The principal attempt is the increase of the level of well-being and the quality of life. It could pertain to different parts of the city, like suburbs and inner-city. Therefore it is necessary to adapt technologies to environmental and architectural heritage, in order to respect the sustainability principle. In my PhD research I do a backward step trying to define a methodology to understand needs and expectations of inner-city inhabitants and I apply it to a case study represented by the renewal of Cagliari inner-city, with the objective to increase the residential satisfaction degree of the inhabitants, proposing smart interventions. The paper examines the different phases of the conducted study until now.