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The Project of the Green Infrastructure in Lombardy Region. A Resilient Spatial Structure for the Landscape Plan
No full textThis contribution describes the ongoing revision process of the Lombardy Region Landscape plan (PPR). As part of the landscape plan revision, the regional Ecosystem services (ES) mapping plays a key role in addressing strategies for biodiversity conservation and landscape protection. The aim is to update the plan’s fact-finding contents and integrate landscape environmental, ecological and anthropic components and use a methodological approach to define plan contents, including spatial design elements and regulations. The design of the Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) and its different characterisation are supported and directly connected to the mapping and evaluation of ES, to preserve and protect landscape values and define strategies and planning actions to increase natural assets for human well-being, in a resilient multi-scale perspective
Challenges for Contemporary Spatial Planning in Italy. Towards a New Paradigm
No full textThe new environmental, ecological and social emergencies affecting the contemporary city and territory of the “Anthropocene” era (Crutzen 2005) have increasingly intense impacts on human well-being and quality of urban life. Emergencies, closely related to regional anthropisation processes, concern issues of adaptation to climate change, risk prevention, and food security. Responding to these challenges requires a shift in strategies and urban design models. In Italy, traditional planning models still prevail, mainly oriented towards governing processes of urban growth and improving regional infrastructures, which strongly affect the availability of natural resources. Even recent planning experiences, focused mostly on the governance of urban redevelopment processes, have been unable to reduce the persisting intensity of urbanisation processes or trigger broader regeneration effects within the increasingly less efficient and less liveable urban fabrics of the built-up city.
Nowadays it is necessary to redefine the territorial governance agenda and experiment with a new urban planning paradigm which can address the re-urbanisation of the contemporary city in an ecologically oriented and socially cohesive perspective, guaranteeing the well-being and the quality of citizens’ lives through a robust reconstruction of the urban “natural capital”
Misurare e interpretare il territorio contemporaneo. Integrazione tra banche dati e valutazioni qualitative.
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The New Urban Plan of Rescaldina Municipality. An Experience for Improving Ecosystem Services Provision
No full textThis contribution presents the results of an urban planning process experience conducted in the Municipality of Rescaldina (located in the northern Milan metropolitan area, Lombardy region, north-west of Italy).
The new local Urban plan (including the Strategic Environmental Assessment) was developed based on Ecosystem Services (ES) addressing urban transformations and future development strategies towards the improvement of their performance as well as the promotion of human health and well-being. The integration of an ES-based approach in Planning involved the deployment of a local Green Infrastructure as the backbone for the design of urban and suburban public and private spaces, using Nature-based solutions. The ES-based GI is a core strategy of both the SEA and the Urban plan, the assumption into both strategic and prescriptive frameworks of the Urban plan ensures its operability
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