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NEW SOUTHEAST METROPOLITAN GATE

With privileged access to the city and high accessibility, the Southeast gate is passing through important transformations that impact a delicate environmental system, requiring coordinated management whether at the local or the metropolitan level. It is today a node for mobility and modal change in development, both in the medium and long term, with infrastructures such as Linate Airport, M4 underground line, the regional railway service at Forlanini and Rogoredo, the rail-road modal exchange at San Donato Milanese, the proximity of the roads Tangenziale East and West, A1 and Tangenziale Esterna.

The high accessibility and the presence of underused urban structures make this part of the city fertile ground for urban regeneration and transformations. The PGT determines two Great Urban Functions (Porto di Mare e Rubattino), which carry along with other major Great Urban Transformations: the staircases of Rogoredo and Lambrate and the areas of l’Ortomercato and Santa Giulia, with a vast urban tissue dedicated to urban and environmental regeneration. Figure 4 shows these structures and schematically represent their relations. It is important, though, to highlight that the residential functions around Santa Giulia are already demarked as Urban Regeneration Areas, which may boost the development of the area in the coming years. Beyond the great environmental value of the area, it is crucial to stress that the high accessibility levels, which favor the construction of a locality, are caused by an expressive number of infrastructures that require special attention from designers at the local level, and coordination in the macro level. That makes, surely, Santa Giulia an opportunity to build a central and demarked public space for the present residents and the ones expected to move in with the transformation in the neighborhood. The PGT’s System of Big Services may apply to Santa Giulia in this sense, making the place have an important role to consolidate the strategic role of sport and culture in Milan.

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Metropolitan Park

Among the initiatives to integrate the provinces around Milan, the Metropolitan park proposes an interconnection between regional parks (Parco Agricolo, Sud Milano e Parco Nord), local parks of regional interest (PLIS Media, Lambro’s Valley, East Cave, Basso Olona e Rhodense, etc) and urban parks of metropolitan vocation (Forlanini and Idroscalo); a revision of management models; the reinforcement of the capacity to design the relationship between nature, agriculture and fruition. t is of special interest to think of Santa Giulia, as being part of the Lambro’s Valley Park, as an important node of the Metropolitan Park, that may offer sport and culture for the entire community around Milan that will take advantage of the Metropolitan Park existence.

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