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The regulation governing modern cities must evolve to address the complexities of disruptive urban environments through a New Governance model that integrates three key dimensions: Sustainability, Resilience, and Inclusion. As expert Paola Subacchi explains, effective regulation requires coordination across four levels—local, regional, national, and international—to be truly impactful. This comprehensive approach ensures that governance can adapt to the multifaceted challenges cities face today.
Natalia de Estevan-Úbeda emphasizes that regulation should serve as a facilitator for technological implementation rather than an obstacle. Regulations need to be tailored to address critical urban issues such as mobility and the coexistence of diverse transport modes, balancing citizen identification with privacy rights, ensuring equitable access to public services, and accommodating new forms of health and wellness access. A notable example is the rise of new private mobility providers who operate without traditional public licenses, significantly influencing urban dynamics and necessitating updated regulatory frameworks. Overall, adapting regulation is essential to support technological innovation while safeguarding citizen rights and promoting sustainable, resilient, and inclusive urban development.
The future of disruptive cities requires smart regulation that adapts to the new urban reality.
Regulation must adapt to the new reality of cities and promote a New Governance in disruptive cities, three-dimensional (in the axes of Sustainability, Resilience and Inclusion), as explained in the following video, our expert Paola Subacchi:
As Paola also tells us, it must be coordinated at its four levels (local, regional, national and international) to really work.
According to Natalia de Estevan-Úbeda, “we must think of regulation as a tool to facilitate the implementation of technology, and not the other way around“.
The regulation must be adapted to several issues inside disruptive cities:
- To mobility and coexistence between different types of transport.
- To the need to combine the identification of citizens and their right to privacy.
- The right of citizens to access public services.
- To the new forms of access to health and wellness services.
In the specific case of mobility, new private actors have emerged, without a public license because the services they offer a priori do not require them, which are having a great impact on what happens in cities.