ABSTRACT

The situation around the world requires an important change in the way of acting. Regarding Urbanism and the Sustainable Development Goals set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is possible to guide projects, academy, knowledge, and life to a sustainable way of living and developing the cities. Particularly for this project, which considers the city of Milan as an international city, developed among some natural elements that define the landscape structure. The strong agricultural character, due to the water system coming from the mountains in the north, and the extended irrigation canals. Moreover, considering the radial growth of the city, that nowadays presents a clear green belt around with several characteristic ecological elements, it permits to propose the idea of “Rus in Urbe” from Latin means “bring the green into the city”. As a matter of fact, this concept is also highlighted as a Sustainable Development goal of the cities, creating cities resilient and connected and respectful with the environmental natural resources. Therefore, the idea is to propose a wedge that creates urban and ecological connections from the rural to the urban environment. Specifically for the GW6 case, it presents complete and interesting characteristics in terms of ecological network. As a matter of fact, it is crossed by the Naviglio Grande, an important water body that starting from the historic center, passes through the development of the city to the new settlements around, new urbanizations until cross all the agricultural lands, included in the important green system of Parco Agricolo Sud, arriving to connect some suburban villages surrounded by several natural areas. According to this background, it is necessary to develop a multidisciplinary analysis that allows to design a coherent proposal to connect all the fragmented landscape elements part of the ecological network, even and mainly with the water bodies, which are disappearing, but are important for the region and for the heritage value as a natural permanence element along the years. Eventually arriving to the strategy based on reconnection, enhancement and recovery of the entire ecological system which supports the city of Milan and villages around.