"Smartest Place: 3D innovation" is an attempt to present the perspective of smart growth and smarter cities, which together form the material reality of urban spaces. The title contains connotations of innovation, material space around human and vicious SMART. Recalled acronym refers to different scale in meanings, because the concept of "smart growth" has a broad, regional dimension; "smarter city" presents city scale, while the smartest place has its local community dimension relating to everyday landscape, and therefore - architectural scale. 3D innovation has the clear space connotations, especially since the main consideration is shaping material reality of physical landscape around us, which should have an impact on human creativity / innovation. What is so the smartest place that combines the creativity of the human and material reality?
The book begins with smart growth definitions which attempt to clarify how the adaptability of pro-innovation policies stimulating innovation (socio-economic dimension through the concept of smarter city and on the individual by stimulating creativity of residents) can help in the renewal of European cities. Smarter City, which is based on instrumentation–interconnection–intelligence of cities, is aimed not only on achieving their climate responsibility, but on the formation of “smarter community”: creative and able to absorb innovation in everyday life as well. The effectiveness of these strategies is evaluated through selected indicators describing urban changes phenomena, which compared allows you to assess “smartness” in selected European cities.
The suburbanization processes are dictated by the will to escape from the feeling of shattered balance between nature and civilization, so counteracting this natural need creates asymmetry of the cognitive mechanism of the man, imbalance between his emotional and rational spheres…and can block human creativity in effect. Smarter City has impact on urban changes and, from the point of view of psychical human needs, it influences upon loose of human creativeness. The aspirations to the innovation, which is crucial element of European Strategy 2020, should be thus complemented by idea, helping to achieve creativity by pointing the activities in everyday spaces. Smartest Place Concept identifies a set of actions stimulating creativity in users of given space on three planes: common plane of values; feeling of human needs fulfillment (subjective well-being); and stimulating of creativity psycho-physical base in human. Described set of necessary actions to boost creativity with reference to the material space constitutes third dimension of innovation. All three together: smart growth, smarter city and smartest place concept shape the space at the local scale, which represents the most complete link between human creativity and space.