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URBAN PLANNING AND POLICY DESIGN

BARNABAS ADDI

BARNABAS ADDI I am a graduate student in Urban Planning and Policy Design at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. I specialize in neighboourhood planning and the research on urban informalities and the use of public space in cities of developing countries. My Bachelor in Development planning has equipped me with municipal level planning and implementation management, whiles the master’s programme has opened new fields in interest in urban planning. I have gained inductive research experience and neighbourhood planning. Passionately, I seek the opportunity to learn and gain more experience in my field of expertise—Am opportunity to traineeships and works.

CONTENTS 01

Olona valley: A place of commuters

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PeripheriCity: Unifying both Worlds

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Gratosoglio Young Giant.

Olona River, Milan

Parco Lambro, Milan

Gratosoglio Neighbourhood, Milan

Olona valley: A place of commuters Urban Planning and Design Studio A.Y 2019/2020 Semester 1

Olona valley is a place with many issues that are related to the industrial development in the area in the period of the industrial revolution in Italy. This economic growth created problems of pollution and wastelands in the places near Olona valley. These issues produced a lousy quality of life for people living there.

Olona valley can be interpreted in different ways. However, one of the most significant ones is the comprehension of the north part of the Lombardy region that takes into consideration the cities of Como, Milan, and Varese as a triangle. This polygon is underlined with the highway that connects these three cities, called Autostrada dei Laghi. This area is crossed by lot of commuters, tourists, and users who use different transportation systems: bus lines, railways, and highways to reach different points of attraction as museums, universities, working areas, shopping malls, parks, Malpensa airport and so on. The territory that is described is also used by inhabitants that need accessibility to facilities, which is not so expected because many municipalities are described as islands between the transportation system that create a lot of problems for people movements. This analysis aims to select an area that can be improved in accessibility, habitability, and sustainability.

Population density

Commuters and transport access

Existing Transport Network

Available open space

Comparison between Tourist sites and Local spaces

Comparison between transport access and place of attraction

Ecological Spaces

Multi-functional spaces

Improve Transport Network

New Bus stations

PeripheriCity Unifying Both World

Lambro park is one of the largest and most popular Milanese park.

It is enclosed by four main neighbourhoods – Crescenzago, Rotole, Cimiano,and Feltre – and bordered by the municipality of Segrate in the East. Parts of Parco Lambro is spatially dividing the park into two parts due to the construction of the Tangeziale Est,

URBAN POLICIES DESIGN STUDIO A.Y 2019/2020 Semester 2

Behind the rather technical term “Nucleo d’Identità Locale 18” hides a highly diversified area in the north easternmost periphery of Milan. NIL 18 comprises parts of five different neighbourhoods – Cimiano, Rottole, Quartiere Feltre, Crescenzago and Lambrate, including large Parco Lambro in its center – displaying very heterogeneous, at times even contrasting characteristics. While in some parts, the area exhibits a number of features typical for highly urbanized areas –high accessibility, high population and building densities, an abundance of shops, services and facilities – in others, clearly peripheral characteristics, such as large-scale monofunctional structures, an unsatisfactory supply situation and unattractive public spaces, prevail. The main challenge is thus to conceive a concept that does justice to this diversity, but at the same time provides a common visionary framework with which residents of buzzy Rottole, inhabitants of the former Cascine surrounding Parco Lambro as well as of the huge ERP blocks in northernmost Crescenzago can identify: With PeripheriCity, our idea is to combine the best of all worlds by leveraging on the respective strengths and mitigating the weaknesses through the provision of customized solutions corresponding with the different challenges and identities of the individual neighbourhoods.

Activities in Parco Lambro

Casinas in Parco Lambro

Public Transport Service

Slow Mobility

Access to services

Daily Supplies

Stakeholders and their Activities

On-going projects in Parco Lambro

Within NIL 18, there are several ongoing projects that can be expected to provide impulses for its future development – at the time being, the most dynamic sites in this respect are Parco Lambro and the area around via Rizzoli and via Civitavecchia.

Important projects are:

Strengths and Opportunities

Weaknesses and Constraints

Clusters: Problems and Desire Future (a) Of Barriers, Gaps and Islands

(b) It’s Green, But what is it?

Concept and Strategies

At the transition between the first ideas about how a desirable future of NIL 18 could look like and the development of concrete actions to make it happen, we drew some inspiration from Ebenezer. Encouraged by this idea, we devised a common visionary framework for our heterogeneous area, displaying both peripheral and urban characteristics, targeted at “interweaving” the two in order to benefit from the respective strengths and prepare the grounds for embracing opportunities and at the same time mitigate the weaknesses and establish resilience against external threats.

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They are in reality not only, as is so constantly assumed, two alternatives – town life and country life – but a third alternative, in which all the advantages of the most energetic and active town life, with all the beauty and delight of the country, may be secured in perfect combination

Vision

Vision

The realization of the vision is based on three lead initiatives with certain aims, that have been conceived against the background of existing impulses and developments in order to ensure coherence and consistency within a broader framework. Each lead initiative includes a number of projects that, subsequently, are implemented through a series of actions. In the following, the initiatives and their components shall be explained in more detail.

(2) Social Lambro

Three Lead Strategies

(1) Rizzole Urban Triangle

(3) Piazzale Udine

(1) Rizzole Urban Triangle

(1) Social Lambro

(1) Social Lambro

Actions & Projects

Actor Analysis and Interaction

The implementation of the projects depends on the collaboration of the actors. The different actors involved have different goals, resources and stakes that allow them to play a role or influence the decision-making process and the realisation of the project activities. Certain mechanisms (such as brokerage, framing, performance feedback etc.) can be put in place to ensure that both actors and recipients collaborate effectively to achieve the desired outcomes. Fig. 55 gives an overview of the most important enablers and beneficiaries of the three lead initiatives.

Gratosoglio Young Giant

Opportunities for young people in a neglected neighbourhood Housing and Neighbourhood Studio A.Y 2020/2021 Semester 1 It is widely ascertained that youngsters living in high poverty neighbourhoods are crippled with severe disparaging conditions in shaping their lives. Young people living in such distressed neighbourhoods like Gratosoglio are stranded and their hopes in limbo as they are left with limited opportunities to establish a meaningful life. The question is: What happens to young people after school in Gratosoglio? The proposal “Gratosoglio Young Giant” aims at investing in young people, allowing them to realize their dream and be the backbone for community development. The vision for Gratosoglio is a neighbourhood, where new spaces are provided to foster young people aggregation and learning for both young and adults, where youth in NEET, equipped with diverse skills, both soft and hard skills become a productive resource to themselves, their families, and the neighbourhood at large. With a priority for youth in housing access, who acquire employable skills and are autonomous in securing jobs it is possible to maintain both social and economic fabrics and liveable space for young people to nurture and unleash their potential and talents. A new Gratosoglio with giant youth able to contribute to the growth of the community while being less dependent on social organizations to make a living.

Gratosoglio within the City of Milan In the early 1970s, the neighbourhood was a liveable place full of active social life. The plague of the economic crisis during the ’70s and ‘80s witnessed a large decline of population and subsequent breaking down of its social fabric and community life.

Today, Gratosoglio is considered a sequestered neighbourhood at the periphery -an urban void with desolated public spaces and lacking vitality of urban life- a dormitory neighbourhood.

Key Problems Identified Economic * Lack of opportunities * Unemployment * Dead economic activities

Economic * Youth housing access * Low maintenance * Dormitory neighbourhood

Economic * Lack of study spaces * Youth aggregation center * School dropout

Vision for Gratosoglio From our deduction on literature and the analysis of what young people do in Gratosoglio, coupled with the recurring visits and observations, interaction with local actors and residents of Gratosoglio, we see a willing youth, actively involved in the community’s social works, whiles others are wasting around since they have nothing do (unemployed and unskilled youth) and no social attractive spaces for social interaction among young people. We see that the youth have the potential to contribute to addressing the many problems organized around the neighbourhood. A youth whose potentials remained unnurtured due to the inadequate attention to the youth and to the lack of spaces to develop these skills. Gratosoglio the young Giant, is inspired by the Tales of “The Young Giant” by Grimm brothers, denoting an investment on young people.

Three focus intervention

Interventions

1. Library+

The Library+ has the overall objective of transforming a problematic and selfenclosed structure (the CAM) into a multi-functional space that creates a new landmark and an aggregation space for young people. The center aims at aggregating diverse services and spaces targeted at building the capacity of young people and a new centrality for social interaction.

2. Youth Housing

Scenarios

A: Two separate units for youth (Singles )

B: Separate Units with common spaces

C: Complete Unit for young couple

3. Piazza

Transforming the empty Piazza into an outdoor living space -Liberating and regenerating the piazza the problem of adequate outdoor space for teenagers will also be addressed.

Qualifying the space with attractive site for gathering and interaction.

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