From where we can learn?

commerce “TIRA SU LA CLER”

The Municipality of Milan has issued a provision that provides for the assignment, with rent reduced by up to 90% for the first five years, of 9 spaces located in the suburbs of the city. Promote business development, encourage neighbourhood trade and at the same time bring unused spaces on the outskirts of the city to new life, for a total of about 600 square meters. This is the goal of ‘Tira su la Clèr’, the provision approved by the Milan council that makes 900 thousand euros available to self-employed workers, artisans, small independent entrepreneurs, cooperatives and microenterprises, duly registered in the Business Register, who will decide to open its own business in the areas of Quarto Oggiaro, Chiesa Rossa and Niguarda.

Closed shops in Gratosoglio / Source: Roberto Schena

temporary use “TUTUR – a Tool for Urban Regeneration”

Temporary use is a planning tool effectively bringing together various stakeholders: it engages an important number of municipal and private economic development agencies and property owners, as well as cultural organisations, to elaborate potential uses of existing infrastructure and resources. In the meanwhile, architects (and landscape architects, designers) also play a key role in the development of models for interim use and in the establishment of temporary spatial possibilities. Transforming empty properties to allow them to adopt new uses offers advantages to all: owners profit with the renovation and preservation of the building, users access affordable work and living spaces, residents enjoy their revitalised neighbourhoods, merchants benefit from increasing traffic and sales, and the design professions gain new work opportunities and expanded professional perspectives. The TUTUR project has aimed at introducing the method of temporary use in urban regeneration to cities participating in the network.

The Cottrell House in Wembley, London / Source: Levente Polyak