Every municipality that aspires more in goals of progress and advancement must seriously consider in the short term and in constant updating a mechanism of transformation, in depth and in an unstoppable way.
The municipalities must arbitrate reform proposals in order to take advantage of the unimportant accumulation of potentialities that are articulated in the various segments of activity with the aim of consolidating an economic activity called to endure and grow, to create quality employment, to increase welfare levels of all citizens.
This planning to go further must be structured through a sustainability that can be understood as the successful, responsible and rational use of the package of resources and possibilities that are available.
Environmental care, the heritage of a different nature of a locality, social awareness, education, civics are several of the various tools to achieve this orderly growth.
But the most useful and most projected instrument is the technology-based one.
Its use and optimization report progress until recently unimaginable that will lead to an undoubted improvement in the quality of life of our cities.
Because that is the primordial philosophy of a public, political management.
The transformation of our municipalities in smart cities, in "smart city" and with sustainable development will make the same environments healthier, more comfortable for the sake of habitable, with more efficiency and less pollution.
In recent times, Spanish cities have taken giant steps in this strategy in response to the implementation of the European Commission of Action Plans for Sustainable Energy in its purpose of reducing 20% ​​of CO2 emissions and linking with the Covenant of Mayors, projects financed either exclusively by the Consistories or with technical and economic endowments of the European Union.
Clean energy projects, placement of recharging points for electric vehicles with sustainable energies, of Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development (DUSI) with charge to the European FEDER Funds, of new technologies, etc. allow that the cities of our immediate environment in addition to regional and national do not back down but are placed as leading environments of general welfare in the framework of globalization.
Juan José Ruiz Moñino
Source: JJRM