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Milan, June 28 2019 - How can urban growth be combined with the needs of sustainability and respect for the context? What risks do excessive constraints pose to areas and neighborhoods undergoing development or regeneration? We will talk about it on Monday 1st July in the Alessi Hall Palazzo Marino during a public meeting involving institutions, environmental associations and professionals entitled "Milan's approach to urban regeneration: development and environmental sustainability against returning immobilism".

“In Milan there is a policy of regeneration, where the public and private sectors collaborate to transform urban voids into opportunities for recovery and revitalization for entire neighbourhoods, putting environmental sustainability at the centre, which contrasts with the logic of vetoes and constraints, which risk to create stalls lasting even ten years, compromising the decorum and safety of areas in a state of total abandonment – ​​declares the councilor for Urban Planning, Green and Agriculture Pierfrancesco Maran –. Through the new rules of the Territorial Government Plan we want to speed up the recovery of abandoned buildings by providing heavy penalties in terms of building rights for non-compliant private individuals. But we cannot then come up against overly rigid constraints and rules that hinder the recovery process. Monday's meeting will serve to take stock of the situation and listen to the points of view of institutions, environmental associations and the business world. We also want to reiterate the Municipality's willingness to dialogue with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities to identify possible solutions together and avoid blocking the regeneration of problematic areas of the city".  

During the morning, on the one hand, strategies for sustainable development for Milan 2030 will be illustrated, in the name of reducing land consumption and increasing greenery on a metropolitan scale; on the other, some of the most controversial situations in which resistance and constraints have risked or risk compromising the urban recovery of disused areas and buildings.

We will start from the example of positive regeneration represented by the old craftsmen's cue, which left space for the Vertical Forest - today the heart of the Porta Nuova district and new icon of sustainable development in the world - to be reborn renewed a few tens of meters away in the Stecca 3.0 formula . We will then touch on the most current issues in the discussion, such as the former Marchiondi Institute in Baggio, whose architectural constraints have been an obstacle to renovation for years and for which the Municipality has recently started a collaboration with the Polytechnic aimed at finally finding a renovation project recovery possible. We will also talk about the recent binding procedures initiated by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities for the QT8 district, including the Garden of the Righteous, the Piazza d'Armi of Baggio, where the PGT foresees the creation of a vast naturalistic park and the reduction of the building index (linked to the creation of a Large Urban Function), and the building known as "Ex chemists of Rogoredo", where the Milan Conservatory has recently expressed its intention to create a campus for students, thus regenerating a building abandoned for many years.

Further useful ideas for the comparison will be those relating to the role played by the Landscape Commission, responsible for evaluating the quality of the projects with particular regard to their insertion in the urban context, and the relationship between institutions, associations and investors in urban regeneration, on which the representatives will reflect of some of the main environmental and entrepreneurial realities in Milan.
 
The meeting schedule:

Milan2030. Objectives - Pierfrancesco Maran, councilor for urban planning, greenery and agriculture
The role of the Landscape Commission - Marco Prusicki, President of the Commission
Case History
•       From the Stecca degli Artigiani to the new cue, Vertical Forest and Library of Trees – Isabella Inti, President of ADA Stecca and TempoRiuso
•       Il Marchiondi - Emilio Faroldi, Vice-Rector of the Polytechnic University of Milan
•       Baggio's Piazza d'Armi – Giancarlo Tancredi, Municipality of Milan
•       The Qt8 - Enrico Fedrighini, Councilor of Municipality 8
•   Rogoredo and the Ex Chimici Building - Raffaello Vignali, President of the Milan Conservatory
 
Sustainability and regeneration
Edoardo Croci, Italia Nostra 
Damiano Di Simine, Legambiente
Daniele Meregalli, Fai
Riccardo Mancioli, WWF
 
Milan that knows how to regenerate itself in collaboration between institutions, citizens and businesses
Stefano Venturi, Vice President of Assolombarda
Ferruccio Resta, Rector of the Polytechnic University of Milan
Paolo Mazzoleni, President of the Order of Architects of Milan
 
Conclusions
Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan
 
Moderator: Silvia Botti, Director of Abitare