Digital Tools at the Service of Public Administrations

Competitions for ideas for architecture have always been sources of stimulus and research, paving the way for innovative projects that have also guaranteed an economic flow and a naturally conse- quent social response. The municipality of Rome, years ago, was the architect of a campaign of this type: the Cento Piazze project included, for the first time, a number of competitions and projects that had never been ad- dressed by a national and international administration. Our intervention aims to reflect on how and to what extent the Public Administration can now benefit from new technologies and digital tools for the analysis and survey of architecture and public space. These innovations, in fact, now make it possible to provide design with a valid help in the preparation of competitions that increasingly concern urban regeneration at an international level.