PTCP

Piano territoriale di coordinamento Provinciale

The plan proposes a connection between the main green, urban, and landscape structures in the Province of Milan, based on a strong analysis of the types of the natural landscape, green actual systems, and city urban elements that makes part of the urban landscape. The plan also considers all the blue infrastructures to create a complete system based mainly on ecosystems and landscape topics.

About the urban development, it proposes a concept of a polycentric city searching for decentralized the strong urban city character of Milan. But controlling the growth of these secondary settlements or cities using policies of regulation for the urban development prioritizing nature, the landscape, and the main natural infrastructures.

The plans show the importance of the River Ticino and the Naviglio as main elements of the blue infrastructure, and the Parco Agricolo as one of the main green infrastructures on the Provincial scale.

For the GW6 was been recognized the main green and blue infrastructures that make a part, or have the stronger connection in the GW6, and considering the proposal design in the plan that give us some guidelines to consider the main important goals to achieve in terms of green and blue infrastructure connections.

GW6

Typological units of landscape PTCP

The medium irrigated plain and the springs

La media pianura irrigua e dei fontanili

“The elements that characterize this “typological landscape unit” are the numerous heads and stems of fountains that form a dense hydro graphic network“.

Many o these water elements are disappearing due to the decrease of water aquifers and changes in agricultural activity.

Apart from these, the network is composed also of network systems of canals derived from the Naviglio Grande and Martesana canal mainly.

“Until a few decades ago, the medium irrigated plain of the fountains represented the historic landscape of the water mead, which has now almost completely disappeared.”

The low irrigated plain

La bassa pianura irrigua

“The western portion represents an area with a ricegrowing vocation”.

The rice cultivation becomes the landscape in a one with a lack of trees and in terms of biodiversity and nature not rich as well.

“In the eastern portion of the lower plain, the hydro graphic network is enriched by colter that collect the water from the areas underlying the Martesana and the springs.”

In this area, the landscape is well preserved near to the city, but going to the east, the landscape starts to lose all the main elements and decrease, except for the irrigation network at the Municipality of Paullo.