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Tarragona: Roman amphitheatre

IntroductionFor this assignment, we have to choose the city where we came from, our hometown.

We have to analyse its policies and activities that makes it a smart city. To do this work

out, we have to think about five smart solutions that are or can be developed in order to

write about it and make a good proposal.

I am going to do this work out about Tarragona, my home town, and the place where I

have been living for years, before I left it to find other opportunities in !adrid.

Tarragona is located in "atalonia, in the north#east of $pain on the !editerranean $ea.

Tarragona is known for its ancient history. Tarragona was the principal military base of

the Roman %mpire in &ispania, with "ornelio %scipi'n, from where the Romans

con(uered the entire peninsula. "urrently, it preserves a big amount of patrimony from

these times. The most relevant is the amphitheatre, but also there is the forum, a part of

the circus and all the walls that surrounded the city. !oreover, there are some other

historical buildings close to the city such as the a(ueduct named )*ont del +iable.

In -- Tarragona is going to be the host of the !editerranean /ames. 0s a

conse(uence, the city is preparing for this event and it has been developing during the

previous years as a smart city to be prepared for this competition.


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In -11 Tarragona was named the host of the 23II !editerranean /ames, it was the

smallest city that has been awarded with the games. "elebrating the games provides

popularity, resources and 4obs and an increase of visitors from all around the world.

For this reason Tarragona had an opportunity to improve a change. 5ut why did

Tarragona decided to transform into a $mart "ity6 The economic crisis has made

everyone about the future. Tarragona doesn7t want to build blindly to leave a ghost city

after the games. The philosophy is to do more with less.

Tarragona is also known for being the entrance to %urope and for the amount of tourism

that it attracts because of the leisure activities such as *ort 0dventure, the beach, etc.

Tarragona is using technology to improve the management of water energy mobility

health and heritage. This is the legacy that will leave Tarragona after the !editerranean

games.

Smart solutions

Water

In $pain we are lucky that we don7t have to worry to have access to water in our

everyday lives. &owever, the waste of water is very important and we are not really

aware about the effects and implications of bad consumption habits.

8ne of the key ob4ectives of the Tarragona7s smart model is related with water.

0lthough the citi9ens in Tarragona have always water in our homes, in Tarragona we

know that water is not an infinite resource. It was in 1;; when Tarragona had for the

first time the possibility to have water at home, due to the transfer of water from the

%bro river, the longest river in $pain which ends in the south of the province of

Tarragona. !oreover, during the spring of --; we had the last drought episode.

Inside the Tarragona smart city there are three main lines in the water environment. First

of all, work towards the achievement of a responsible consumption. $econdly, improve

the optimi9ation of its management. 0nd finally, the relationship between the populationand the water as an element of !editerranean ecosystems.

In terms of responsible consumption, Tarragona is going to implement the telemetry of

water counters. 0 new technology which will allow the access of particulars, companies

and administrations to detailed information of their water consumption. !oreover, it

will provide the users to customi9e their counters with systems of awareness and

prevention of bad use, saving and good practices diffusion. In the same line, Tarragona

will build an infrastructure of intelligent irrigation systems in parks and gardens. This

new tool will allow finding leaks, to adapt automatically to the weather conditions, and

optimi9e the consumption of water to the real needs of the moment.


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Energy and environment

8ne of the main a


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services provided to the people and at the same time to stimulate an innovative

environment in de city.

8ne of the proposals is to design an urban environment that makes easy to have

healthier lifestyles. The idea is to take profit of the !editerranean culture and the sport

practice changing the paradigm of mobility.

0nother proposal is to promote young people to have innovative ideas and to

incorporate technologies in the hospital and health environment.

Mobility

!obility is in essence one of the most important issues in every city due to its impact

over the (uality of life and in general over the (uality of the environment.

Tarragona has worked on this issue. The city has encouraged people to use the public

transport and collectiveB and in the implication of the society in the decision making in

regard with mobility.

The Tarragona $mart !editerranean "ity will be essential to achieve these ob4ectives.

The pro4ect has two main goals. First of all, the efficient and integrated management of

the different aspects of mobility: parking, public transportations, individual mobility,

integration with other means of transport, etc.@. The second goal is to allow the

interaction between this new management of mobility with other strategic components

for the city.

$ome proposals to achieve these ob4ectives are the reflection of data from sensors in

different aspects of mobility, the analysis of this data and other date such as demography

or the consumption and the development of optimi9ation and evaluation systems.

!oreover, it is important to concentrate the management of the mobility in a centre of

control integrated, capable of provide services such as the e


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To promote the tourism activity in Tarragona there has been a development in social

networks, smart phone applications and websites. With these improvements, tourists

have more information on real time about restaurants, hotels, heritage, culture, etc.

The !editerranean /ames will represent a window for the tourism promotion towards

the rest of !editerranean cities, making easier to collaborate with other cities in terms

of culture, sustainability and efficiency.

Benefits of smart solutions from other cities

I think that Tarragona needs to develop an infrastructure of public bicycles such as

5ici!ad in !adrid.

I believe that this implementation will be very positive because the public transportation

in Tarragona is (uite limited, due to the fact that the city is built on an historical city on

a hill, it has very narrow streets where means of transport such as the bus are unable to

access. 0s a solution, I think that public bikes will solve this problem due to their

versatility and because they are accessible to all the public.

Negative externalities

In my point of view, there are some negative e


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