Urbanismo

Giovanni Sala LAND Group

Working group Andreas Kipar, Giovanni Sala, Matteo Pedaso 27.04.12

Milano

Roma

Cagliari

Duisburg

www.landsrl.com

PARTICULATE MATTER IN EUROPE

World Health Organization

In the Po Valley people’s average life is 9 months shorter.

Veneto 2010

Vicenza Flooding in downtown Nov. 1, 2010.

The key point is the urban design of TomorrowPensare ‘la città infinita’, Aldo Bonomi

Towards the Green Landscape Economy

How to revitalize the economy and at the same time, protect the fragile environment?

Towards the Green Landscape Economy

Landscape and development
The Italian Republic promotes the culture and scientific and technical research development. It Protects the landscape and the historical and artistic heritageof the nation.
Art. 9 Costituzione Italiana

‘The damages on the landscape affect all of us, as individuals and collectively. They kill the historical memory, hurt our physical and mental health, offend the rights of future generations. […]

We need a new approach on landscape, which should
analize the ethic and juridical reasons of the italian preservation tradition, but also the reasons ofits decay. […]

The landscape and the environment quality is not a luxury, it’s a necessity, it is the best investment for our future.
Salvatore Settis, Paesaggio Costituzione Cemento, Einaudi 2010

Towards the Green Landscape Economy

Green landscape Economy
The answer may be a new

approach

to sustainability, in which the
landscape (particularly strong element of identity inItaly) may play a major role. We should assume that any new transformation project should make less but better, trying to take as much advantage as possible from what already exists, putting the boundary in a system

landscape, lost its ornamental passive connotation, becomes a central element in the new developing policies, looking for a renewed
The relationship with our land The goal becomesdeveloping

intervention

strategies

aimed at the exploitation of existing resources and the activation of synergies between the various planning activities, with the aim of improving the efficiency, operation and cost of the entire process. Stop war on nature! Let’s work with it!

Towards the Green Landscape Economy

How? The search for a format
The goal is to develop interventionstrategies which aim to the exploitation of existing resources and the activation of synergies between the various planning activities, with the aim of improving the efficiency, operation and cost of the entire process.

Towards the Green Landscape Economy

How to activate the process?

Starting from the ongoing project Bringing together stakeholders

Linking to big international events(Expo 2015 in Milan, nomination for Venezia e Nord-est capitale della cultura 2019)

An application

The Valtellina valley

The landscape as an infrastructure

a valley in the middle of the European valleys
Distances and principal connections

The territory

Livigno

Bornio

Chiavenna

Tirano Sondrio Morbegno

The territory: A linear city of 150.000 inhabitants at the foot ofthe Alpes

A case of best practices
THE LANDSCAPE AS AN ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
1_The big flatland forest (a project by Regione Lombardia)

A case of best practices
THE LANDSCAPE AS AN ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
1_The big flatland forest (a project by Regione Lombardia)

A case of best practices
THE LANDSCAPE AS AN INFRASTRUCTURE
2_The new Technology Center in Sondrio and the AddaMallero park

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
February 2006 Brownfield recovery

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
October 2009

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
May 2010

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
May 2011

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
Opening May 8, 2011

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
Opening May 8, 2011

Parco Adda Mallero - Sondrio
Phytoremediation

A case of best...