So often silent and almost invisible, the construction of urban intelligence finds in the public space a privileged stage for experimentation and application on the ground of all the advantages and all the challenges that technology offers to cities. Miguel de Castro Neto, dean of NOVA IMS - Information Management School and coordinator of NOVA Cidadeb - Urban Analytics Lab, explains that the use of technology and analytics "by those who manage cities is increasingly unavoidable in the management of spaces and day-to-day problems," because "it allows to build scenarios and then validate them, in order to understand the impact of different options, ensuring that a particular intervention is the best for a place, knowing that this may be completely different for another place just 500 meters away."