The themes of urban requalification and regeneration have long been at the centre of public debate throughout Europe and even in Milan, on the wave of a dynamism that is profoundly transforming the face of the city.
The “General Report: Milan 2030 – Vision, Construction, Strategies, Spaces” of the new PGT of Milan indicates “selective densification” as a tool to “enhance its [Milan’s] identities starting from environmental, economic and social specificities”. It states that “The Milan of the future wants to regenerate itself in order to grow in a conscious way, in the sign of urban and territorial quality built…
Rosalba D’Onofrio, Michele Talia, University of Camerino
Over the last few decades, the urban planning debate has given constant attention to the paradigm of urban density, but the references it has used have often been ambivalent.
Starting from a search for the optimal density linked to the parameters proposed first by the hygienic culture and then by functionalism, the compactness of the settlements was interpreted as a sort of “antidote” to the environmental and climatic crisis generated by urbanization processes. In contrasting with the model of the widespread city, disciplinary reflection has thus favored the promotion of European policies for…