A comunicação e o urbano criativo e inteligente: contribuição conceitual aplicada às cidades de pequeno e médio porte

Abstract

Cities with creative and / or intelligent adjectives have marked the contemporary discussions about social behavior, implying in the relations around the technologies and the creativity in the diverse areas and actors of the urban environment in their daily practices. Thus, strategies of development are thought out in the molds of the concepts of Creative City and Intelligent City. The purpose of this dissertation is to characterize how Information and Communication Technologies can contribute to a creative and intelligent urban environment in small and medium-sized cities. For this, it was necessary to map a bibliography about the concepts of Creative City, Intelligent City and its dimensions allied to the field of Communication, observing the discussions of Chicago School theorists. It was focused on addressing the critical perspectives of concepts, for Creative City and for Smart City. In the sequence, the articulation of these concepts through the idea of a cognitive environment of creativity, knowledge and innovation. The methodology used was the bibliographical research and documentary research with qualitative approach. The contribution of this work is to identify the challenges of small and medium-sized cities in the development of the dimensions of Intelligent City and practices of Creative City, whose most evident is the inequalities between cities belonging to the same region. Finally, as results it collaborates theoretically with the debate on dimensions of Intelligent City, proposing new dimensions, being: Data Security, Culture, Risk Management and Resilience, Urban Mobility, Optimized Management of Available Resources and Communication. It concludes by reaffirming the importance of communication as an active participant in urban relations in the contemporary world, that ICTs constitute communication tools that mediate interactions in the urban environment.