With every natural disaster, pandemic and malicious rumor comes the inevitable "information bomb". Live transmissions take up real space, and technology connects life to terror. But is it the fault of technology or its abuse by people? There is a fine line separating technological development with technological abuse. Proper management of the power provided by technology is essential for our evolution.
For millennia, we use natural materials to build in architecture, but as buildings and cities become smarter, information architecture evolves. It's a virtual representation of natural architecture. Information Architecture needs new types of virtual materials. Data, information and knowledge are those materials that connect the physical and virtual environments, which in turn describes the interaction between the characteristics and functions of the actual object. In the simulation of urban planning, it is important to explore future scenarios.
Cities are first and for all made for people, and in today's world, people produce large amounts of valuable data, thus contributing to what we call Smart Cities. Future Smart Cities will be dominated by an extremely large number of smart devices and applications, communicating autonomously with the aim of continuously improving urban life, as well as smart buildings, which can be seen as a "supersystem" of interconnected building subsystems that connects computer networks to a larger "supersystem". Smart Cities can enhance people's health, happiness and productivity in them, subsequently they enhance the sustainability of existing cities. But cities will never be completed, and even smart city is not a final stage in urban development. It will form a foundation for the next generation of urban systems, such as the Responsive City. Their biggest difference will be the role of the citizen in the future urban system, where the role of the resident will change from that of a non-participant to an active partner in the governance of the city.
Cities are systems that often tend to self-organize to protect themselves and resist change. However, to address systemic challenges, cities need to be resilient and maintain the potential for change and transformation. Resilience focuses on enhancing a system's performance against multiple risks. Urban systems should be reflective, strong, redundant, flexible, resourceful, inclusive and integrated in order to enable resilience. There are important relationships between biophilic cities and urban sustainability and resilience and, more specifically, the former helps to promote the last one. The main goal of biophilic design is to bridge the gap between humans and nature by taking evolutionary biology, ecology and environmental psychology as the basis for design.