Slow Mobility, Greenways,
and Landscape Regeneration. Reusing
Milan’s Parco Sud Decommissioned Rail
Line as a Landscape Cycle Path, 2019
Raffaella Neri and Laura Anna Pezzetti
Abstract This study is part of the EU-GUGLE project FP7 and aims at integrating
a demonstration pilot case for the improvement of the efficiency of buildings with
experiences of mitigating urban connection system and cycling lines on a district
scale along with peri-urban landscape recovery. This is achieved through the correct
management of the distributed green areas in order to improve the overall efficiency
and the optimization of slow mobility pathways (cycle and pedestrian) in order to
reduce the use of cars, while guaranteeing the best conditions of usage (mitigation,
shading, resting points and services, safety, etc.), and coherent insertion within the
public transport network. The study explores a peri-urban connection system in Milan
integrating different kinds of green infrastructure while also analyzing them through
specific design solutions. The recovery of a dismissed railway is explored through
design for its landscape potential, thus proving the resilience of the city’s urban
palimpsest.
Keywords Slow mobility · Mitigation paths · Green infrastructure ·
Decommissioned railway recovery
1 The District’s Scale
The research is part of the EU-GUGLE FP7 project for improving existent districts’
and buildings’ energy efficiency through retrofitting and develops the integration of
mitigated urban paths and spaces, reusing existing railway lines and roads while connecting to major district facilities. The scale of the analyzed area allows to reconsider
the relationships with public space and territorial transport networks to optimize the
transport system by establishing a hierarchy between the different types of paths
Design Group: Raffaellla Neri and Laura Pezzetti, coordinators, with Alessia Cerri, Maria Giulia
Atzeni, Heken Kanamirian, Li Kun. Sergio Croce, Marco Prusicki, consultants.
R. Neri (B) · L. A. Pezzetti
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: raffaella.neri@polimi.it
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_15
149
and Landscape Regeneration. Reusing
Milan’s Parco Sud Decommissioned Rail
Line as a Landscape Cycle Path, 2019
Raffaella Neri and Laura Anna Pezzetti
Abstract This study is part of the EU-GUGLE project FP7 and aims at integrating
a demonstration pilot case for the improvement of the efficiency of buildings with
experiences of mitigating urban connection system and cycling lines on a district
scale along with peri-urban landscape recovery. This is achieved through the correct
management of the distributed green areas in order to improve the overall efficiency
and the optimization of slow mobility pathways (cycle and pedestrian) in order to
reduce the use of cars, while guaranteeing the best conditions of usage (mitigation,
shading, resting points and services, safety, etc.), and coherent insertion within the
public transport network. The study explores a peri-urban connection system in Milan
integrating different kinds of green infrastructure while also analyzing them through
specific design solutions. The recovery of a dismissed railway is explored through
design for its landscape potential, thus proving the resilience of the city’s urban
palimpsest.
Keywords Slow mobility · Mitigation paths · Green infrastructure ·
Decommissioned railway recovery
1 The District’s Scale
The research is part of the EU-GUGLE FP7 project for improving existent districts’
and buildings’ energy efficiency through retrofitting and develops the integration of
mitigated urban paths and spaces, reusing existing railway lines and roads while connecting to major district facilities. The scale of the analyzed area allows to reconsider
the relationships with public space and territorial transport networks to optimize the
transport system by establishing a hierarchy between the different types of paths
Design Group: Raffaellla Neri and Laura Pezzetti, coordinators, with Alessia Cerri, Maria Giulia
Atzeni, Heken Kanamirian, Li Kun. Sergio Croce, Marco Prusicki, consultants.
R. Neri (B) · L. A. Pezzetti
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
e-mail: raffaella.neri@polimi.it
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_15
149