Renzo RIBOLDAZZI,
On the grounds that referred to Milan’s political, financial, and cultural role on the national and international scenario, it has been – over the last hundred years – a city that experienced ways to plan urban transformation that can be deemed to be significant phases of the town planning culture and the regional governance practices in Italy.
They can range from standard expansion plans of the building fabric of the early twentieth century – that can be referred to the nineteenth-century town-planning culture – to hypotheses of a polycentric town in the late twenties that relate to the urbanism culture of British or German origins; from plans drawn up by a single municipal technician based on the Fascist regime regulations in the mid-thirties up to those in the second post-war period when types of design democracy were also experienced by involving over a hundred architects and engineers; from a concept of ‘town planning scheme’ ruling the urban region functions to the ‘regional governance plans’ or to the ‘strategic plans’ in which state-of-the-art ways of planning are experimented with and, at the same time, themes and issues typical of the contemporary town are dealt with.
This paper aims to reflect on the continuity, discontinuity, and breakthrough of the Milanese town planning and, more generally, of that Italian, through a concise analysis of Milan’s town planning schemes, also considered concerning the political, administrative, and regulatory context giving rise to them.
Mots clés : Italy|Milan|Modern Town Planning|Regional Governance
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