Introduction Towards a urban policy design project THE ISSUES
Engaging community and residents' participation
ABSTRACT
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Community culture construction relatively weak, the community is sho all kinds of cultural activities and p welfare activities.
Community residents' participatio community activities is not wide and enough; the sense of belongin community needs to be enhanced.
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There are some abandoned activities a building in the neighborhood
High housing costs and housing p make it unaffordable for many people This third section is articulated in 3 part, one for each strategy: ‘A new way of 2
living’, ‘A new way of community’ and ‘A new type of natural environment’. The apartments are oversize and ther
The three different strategies pursue different objectives, the first one few is small size apartments. focusing mainly on the residential stock and upon the problems that affect this Landscape environment. For instance solve the problem of the massive vacant dwellings, Although there are a lot of green spa affecting almost all the residential building and in particular the one in1 the the community, most of them ar main square of the neighbourhood. For these problems, we aim to intervene decoration, and there are not many spaces for residents to use. in creating possible solutions, processes and incentives to encourage people living in Milano Due and creating new social services for the community. The type of green space is very s 3
lack of diversity. The second strategy is focusing on the commercial spaces at the ground floor of the buildings, in particular under the arcades. We count a total of There are no benches in some areas o 3 around 30 abandoned activities, almost half of the total available. Here we number of benches is insufficient. use different strategies to foster buyers in locating here their activity, that can be commercial spaces, jobs activities (architecture and lawyer office,Services etc) tofacilities provide new opportunities for residents or new services, for people to enjoy.Some facilities are damaged and ne 2
be repaired and improved, such as br 3 The third strategy is focusing on the open spaces, in fact during the surveys we fences, bus stops lacking seats noticed that the numerous green areas were not valorized at all, big areas that protection. couldn’t be used by the community and just there for decorative purpose. With The community lacks the services th these third actions, we aim to regenerate open spaces, placing and creating elderly really need, such as facilitie new functions usable by the community (community farms, green roofs,3etc). the elderly care, newsstand, typew
and copying shops. At the end, we provide a conclusion to summarize all the three strategies Some facilities need to be improved, together, in order to come up with a broad view of the actions implemented in as bus stops lacking seats and shelte 3 the whole neighbourhood. Population and jobs 1
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The community is aging
The total population of the communi been decreasing year by year, espe for young people and children. Lack of jobs opportunity
