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Maran: “The strategy of valorising public space continues in all neighbourhoods”

Milan, 4 December 2020 – Greener, tidier, more livable. This is how Piazzale Archinto and Piazza Sant'Agostino appear today, reopened after the redevelopment works which radically changed their face. 
“These interventions are part of the Administration's plan to bring the squares back to the center of the neighborhoods, increasing public pedestrian space and greenery – states the councilor for Urban Planning and Greenery Pierfrancesco Maran -. In recent years, many places have changed their face, from Rimembranze di Lambrate to Beccaria, from Negrelli to Leonardo da Vinci and Liberty, to the dozens of tactical urban planning interventions and the birth of new centers such as Piazza Olivetti and Piazza Compasso d'Oro . It is a work that will continue towards Milan 2030, which will regenerate seven highly accessible squares located on the 90/91 axis, starting from Piazzale Loreto and Piazza Trento".

Piazzale Archinto 
The Isola neighborhood has a new green and livable square for all citizens. Piazzale Archinto has changed its face thanks to a new Luserna stone pavement interspersed with new green flower beds for approximately 880 square meters which enhance the existing trees. In the center of the square, a new area of ​​180 square meters was created with anti-trauma flooring dedicated to the after-school attendance of parents and children. The redevelopment of Piazzale Archinto is not the only new development in the neighborhood: in recent weeks, a few hundred meters away, two tactical urban planning interventions have redesigned the spaces in Via Toce and Piazza Minniti. In the first case, the stretch between the Bruno Munari park and the kindergarten park was pedestrianized, providing it with benches, picnic and ping-pong tables, while Piazza Minniti was partially pedestrianized and will be completed in the next few days with the coloring.

Piazza Sant'Agostino 
A new and tidy layout for the 7 square meter square, characterized by 87 trees including ginko biloba and maples protected by horizontal and vertical grids, hundreds of shrubs, 5.000 square meters of new smooth asphalt pavement interspersed with bands of granite and benches. The new configuration of Piazza Sant'Agostino guarantees coexistence between urban spaces and the Tuesday and Saturday market, giving it harmony and liveability. On the sides of the square, two stone ovals were created to act as a traffic island, to also accommodate the existing trees and the subway grids. The pavements were also redone in national granite. The intervention also develops in the portion on Via Numa Pompilio, where trees and benches have arrived. All the plants were sponsored as part of "Take care of and adopt public green spaces": the communications agency Zack Goodman will take care of them for the next two years.  
The market activities, which in recent months have been temporarily located between viale Papiniano, via Numa Pompilio and via Bragadino, will return to animate the area in a few weeks, when the retractable posts that allow entry into the square will be positioned

Photo gallery St. Augustine 
 

Photo gallery Archinto