Pr. Dr. Grégory Kalflèche is a full professor at Toulouse 1 University. He’s written a book on “urban planning law” and is a specialist in public procurement law too.
Smart city is a concept that is more and more frequently found in contemporary thinking about the city. A fashionable concept, it corresponds to the meeting of new challenges with the constant desire – for 150 years – to anticipate the evolution of cities. The novelty at the origin of the Smart City concept comes from the development of digitalization, which affects all areas of human activity, and which takes on a dimension of its own when it comes to applying it to the city.
Smart cities also want to solve other problems: the concentration of humans in cities all around the world and the problems of transport, energy, telecommunications, natural resources, pollution and social difficulties due to this concentration.
The Smart City is therefore a concept that considers digital technology as a way to improve city life by solving a number of these problems. Since it is a modern concept, the Smart City must also be a means for a city that allows a greater place to nature and fights against the development of CO2.
In this perspective, what can the law do? That’s the issue of the lecture which want to demonstrate that it is the law that will frame the development of new cities as well as the transformation of historical cities into smart cities.
NB! The lecture will be held in a hybrid format: offline in aud. 303 and online via Zoom on December 8, at 16:50-18:30 (Lithuanian time). To participate (either online or offline), please register via the link.