parts of Italy. Carta is the Italian theorist of the "creative city", on which he published the book Creative City. Dynamics, Innovations, Actions (Trento, ListLab, 2007) in which it is proposed a manifesto for the "second generation" creative cities, based on 3C: Culture, Communication and Cooperation. The scenario of the global crisis has led to the identification of a third-generation and elaboration of the paradigm of the "creative city 3.0 beta version", capable of generating new city and new cycles of life more creative, open-minded, brilliant, intelligent and sustainable eco-system, able to act as a driver of new urban policies to overcome our inner crisis. On the themes of the waterfront regeneration he has developed some innovative methods and urban design experiments originally defined by Rosario Pavia and Rinio Bruttomesso, which began in 2005 and synthesized in 2013 in the "fluid city paradigm", proposed as part of a project of international cooperation between Sicily and Malta, and applied in the masterplan for the regeneration of Palermo waterfront. With the very important book Reimagining Urbanism (Trento, ListLab, 2014) he has investigated and interpreted the challenges of western cities - and Sicilian one - in the age of never-ending metamorphosis not only as a powerful attractor of population, but also as a responsible subject of a new relationship with the suburban and rural areas, as activators of beautiful creative eco-systems based on new digital/physical citymakers. The book proposes an urbanism capable of producing resources for a new urban metabolism that can be reconciled with environmental protection, with the reduction of consumption, with the consolidation of the welfare state, food creation, as well as the promotion of innovative startups can stimulate the intelligence and creativity, to extend urban agriculture and recycling, to manage energy adaptation and climate efficiency of the city of the future. With the new book Augmented City. A Paradigm Shift (Trento-Barcelona, ListLab, 2017) he proposes a new paradigm for more sensible, open source, intelligent, creative and resilient cities, based on recycle for being more productive, fluid and reticular. The incoming paradigm is based on ten challenges/approaches that need a strategic urban planning more incremental and adaptive, based on a new protocol called "Cityforming". Main Publications L'armatura culturale del territorio. Il patrimonio culturale come matrice di identità e strumento di sviluppo. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 1999. . Next City: culture city. Roma: Meltemi, 2004. . Creative City. Dynamics, Innovations, Actions. Trento-Barcellona: List, 2007.