As part of its planning for the future, the city of Lisbon has made two of its top priorities the creation of a center for social innovation and of an intelligent neighborhood that would serve as a laboratory. “City Lab Lisbon”, a project by a team from the German Fraunhofer Institute, established 12 priority projects that Lisbon should undertake with a view to promoting sustainable urban development. Of these projects, the study coordinator Alanus von Radecki says that the three most important are: the creation of a ‘hub’ of social innovation (a center for coordination of responses and resources to social needs); an ‘intelligent neighborhood’ and “the definition of clear and measurable development objectives.” Alanus von Radecki says that Lisbon “should place top priority on the recommended projects that have potential for long-term transformation of society and the city’s economy.”
