Milan : productions, spatial patterns and urban change

157 Pages·2018·10.287 MB·English

by  Armondi, Simonetta

Milan
As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan
is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and contem-
porary productions – old and new manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive
sectors, creative and cultural economy – and investigate their influence both
on spatial patterns and urban policy agenda.
Accordingly, this book explores the contentious geographies of innova-
tion, productions and working spaces, both empirically and theoretically in
a city that, since the beginning of the 2000s, has been involved in a process
of urban change, with relevant spatial and socio-economic effects, within
an increasingly turbulent world economy. Through this analysis, the book
provides an insight into the complexity of contemporary urban phenomena
beyond a traditional metropolitan lens, highlighting issues such as rescal-
ing, urban decentralization and recentralization, extensive urban transfor-
mation and shrinkage and molecular urban regeneration.
This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers and scholars
focusing on Urban Studies such as Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Urban
Geography, Urban Economy and Urban Sociology.
Simonetta Armondi is a researcher in political and economic geography,
and Professor of Urban and Regional Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano,
Italy. Her research and teaching activities focus on the geography of urban
change related to economic restructuring, contemporary capitalisms and
urban policies.
Stefano Di Vita is Research Fellow and adjunct Professor at the Politecnico
di Milano, Italy, where he carries out research and teaching activities in the
fields of regional and urban planning and design. His main interests concern
phenomena and tools of urban change processes supported by both ordinary
and extraordinary projects.
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Milan: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban Change
Edited by Simonetta Armondi and Stefano Di Vita
Milan
Productions, Spatial Patterns
and Urban Change
Edited by
Simonetta Armondi
and Stefano Di Vita
First published 2018
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This book is the result of a collaboration between the research hub
“Innovation, Productions and Urban Space” of the Department of
Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano and
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Names: Armondi, Simonetta, editor.
Title: Milan : productions, spatial patterns and urban change /
edited by Simonetta Armondi and Stefano Di Vita.
Other titles: Milan (Routledge (Firm))
Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Built
environment city studies | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017025146 | ISBN 9781138244795 (hb) |
ISBN 9781315269450 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: City planning—Italy—Milan. |
Urbanization—Italy—Milan.
Classification: LCC HT169.I82 M555 2017 | DDC
307.1/2160945211—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025146
ISBN: 978-1-138-24479-5 (hbk)
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Introduction 1
SIMONETTA ARMONDI AND STEFANO DI VITA
 1  Which Milan? Setting the scene for reflecting urban 
decline, resilience, and change 7
SIMONETTA ARMONDI AND STEFANO DI VITA
2 Urban regionalization and metropolitan resurgence:
discontinuity and persistence of a spatial dialectic 36
MATTEO BOLOCAN GOLDSTEIN
3 The attractiveness of Milan and the spatial patterns of
international firms  48
ILARIA MARIOTTI
4 Creative production and urban regeneration in Milan 60
ANTONELLA BRUZZESE
5 Sharing economy: makerspaces, co-working spaces,
hybrid workplaces, and new social practices 73
CAROLINA PACCHI
vi Contents
6 Forms of urban change: nodes of knowledge-based
networks as drivers of new metropolitan patterns in
Southern Milan 84
CORINNA MORANDI AND MARIO PARIS
7 Urban change and geographies of production in North-
East Milan 96
SIMONETTA ARMONDI
8 Urban change and innovation of functions and
productions in the north-western transect of the Milan
urban region 110
STEFANO DI VITA
9 Territorial infrastructures and new production places 122
ANDREA ROLANDO
10 The last cycle of Milan urban policies and the
prospects for a new urban agenda 133
GABRIELE PASQUI
Index 145
Figures
1.1 The Milan urban region in the European space 22
1.2 The Milan urban region within the Northern Italy city region 24
1.3 The Milan urban region: physical components 26
1.4 The Milan urban region: economic framework 28
1.5 The Milan urban region: population distribution 29
1.6 The Milan urban core: main urban change projects 30
1.7 The Milan urban core: trans-scalar networks 32
1.8 The Milan urban core: creative, knowledge-based,
and sharing economy 34
Tables
3.1 Inward and outward FDIs in Lombardy region and Milan
province at January 1st 2015 52
3.2 Inward FDIs in Lombardy region and Milan province by
sectors at January 1st 2015 53
3.3 Global players located in Lombardy and their ranking at
December 31st 2014 54
7.1 North Milan before and during economic crisis: socio-
economic data 100
Contributors
Simonetta Armondi (PhD in Environmental and Territorial Planning,
Politecnico di Milano) is Assistant Professor in Economic-Political
Geography. She teaches Urban and Regional Analysis at the Politecnico
di Milano. Her research and teaching activities focus on one side on urban
change and economic restructuring related to contemporary rescaling, on
the other side on public policies, in which old and new spatial narratives
are mobilized.
Matteo Bolocan Goldstein (PhD in Public territorial policies, IUAV, Ven-
ezia) is a full professor of Economic-Political Geography and is cur-
rently President of Centro Studi PIM – Programmazione Intercomunale
dell’area Metropolitana. For the last several years, his research has
involved theoretical and empirical work focused on the interpretation of
urbanization processes and the urban space metamorphosis with particu-
lar regard to the Milanese context.
Antonella Bruzzese (PhD in Environmental and Territorial Planning,
Politecnico di Milano) is Associate Professor in Urban Design at the
Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests focus on public space,
on strategies and processes of place making and on the role of creative
industries in urban regeneration with attention to the synergies between
the project of physical transformation and urban policies.
Stefano Di Vita (PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning,
Politecnico di Milano) is a research fellow and contract professor at the
Politecnico di Milano, where he carries out teaching and research activi-
ties in the fields of regional and urban planning and design. His main
research interests concern issues related to sustainability and smartness
of urban change processes.
Ilaria Mariotti (PhD in Economic Geography, University of Groningen) is
Associate Professor in Regional Economics at the Politecnico di Milano.