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The project also reconnects the EU-GUGLE-renovated buildings to the new ongoing masterplan of Santa Giulia, extending the connection of mitigated cycling and
pedestrian paths to the surrounding areas and the intermodal Rogoredo station. Mitigated and cycling paths form the support structure for ‘slow mobility’ intercepting
and directing consistently the localization of district facilities while assuring new
uses of the city and urban relationships (Figs. 2 and 3).
4 The Plan: New ‘Green Lines’ Combined with Smart City
Concepts
The PUM (Milan’s Mobility Plan, Osservatorio PUMS—Piano Urbano della Mobilità Sostenibile) establishes the general network and defines priorities. It is developed
on a large urban scale, so it is not consistently related to urban transformation projects
nor specifically defined on a district scale.
It has been analyzed and integrated by the project concerning the green and cycling
paths, introducing a number of modifications in order to connect it consistently to the
opportunities emerging from site-specific conditions and smart district concepts. The
new cycling paths aim to be innovative green infrastructures, identifying different
levels of complexity and smart city concept integration according to each specific
urban situation (ISPRA 2010).
The project has provided a set of principles capable of combining holistically
the issues relating to ‘slow mobility,’ to ‘green infrastructures’ (GI), and to ‘urban
forestation’ (UF), while enhancing their role as ‘green social streets’ within urban
and landscape redevelopment projects. The goal of these principles is to reduce the
ecological impacts of urban space fragmentation and support the multifunctional
potential of green trails in organizing urban connections and heat island abatement.
In order to achieve these goals, greenways, ecological corridors, and ecological
networks need to be planned and constructed within the concept of ‘connectivity.’
On the other hand, the aim of the greenway strategy has been related to three
ecosystemic services: cutting air pollutants, cutting risks of water outflow, and reducing temperatures.
The masterplan identifies a set of cycling and pedestrian lanes that are connected
in a unique network with already existing and planned paths in the new Santa Giulia District. The green streets system consists of a network of shaded streets that
connect residential and public buildings in the two parts of the district that are still
suffering from isolation and a lack of services and are the focus of urban oases that
link mitigated parking areas within a 300-m radius and district facilities (especially
schools). These lanes are intended as ‘green social streets,’ intercepting a number of
social places, and are endowed with urban oases where different facilities are provided according to their hierarchy (level of the street) and specific urban situation:
shade, seating, bio-ponds, water and electricity supply, bike sharing or car sharing,
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The project also reconnects the EU-GUGLE-renovated buildings to the new ongoing masterplan of Santa Giulia, extending the connection of mitigated cycling and
pedestrian paths to the surrounding areas and the intermodal Rogoredo station. Mitigated and cycling paths form the support structure for ‘slow mobility’ intercepting
and directing consistently the localization of district facilities while assuring new
uses of the city and urban relationships (Figs. 2 and 3).
4 The Plan: New ‘Green Lines’ Combined with Smart City
Concepts
The PUM (Milan’s Mobility Plan, Osservatorio PUMS—Piano Urbano della Mobilità Sostenibile) establishes the general network and defines priorities. It is developed
on a large urban scale, so it is not consistently related to urban transformation projects
nor specifically defined on a district scale.
It has been analyzed and integrated by the project concerning the green and cycling
paths, introducing a number of modifications in order to connect it consistently to the
opportunities emerging from site-specific conditions and smart district concepts. The
new cycling paths aim to be innovative green infrastructures, identifying different
levels of complexity and smart city concept integration according to each specific
urban situation (ISPRA 2010).
The project has provided a set of principles capable of combining holistically
the issues relating to ‘slow mobility,’ to ‘green infrastructures’ (GI), and to ‘urban
forestation’ (UF), while enhancing their role as ‘green social streets’ within urban
and landscape redevelopment projects. The goal of these principles is to reduce the
ecological impacts of urban space fragmentation and support the multifunctional
potential of green trails in organizing urban connections and heat island abatement.
In order to achieve these goals, greenways, ecological corridors, and ecological
networks need to be planned and constructed within the concept of ‘connectivity.’
On the other hand, the aim of the greenway strategy has been related to three
ecosystemic services: cutting air pollutants, cutting risks of water outflow, and reducing temperatures.
The masterplan identifies a set of cycling and pedestrian lanes that are connected
in a unique network with already existing and planned paths in the new Santa Giulia District. The green streets system consists of a network of shaded streets that
connect residential and public buildings in the two parts of the district that are still
suffering from isolation and a lack of services and are the focus of urban oases that
link mitigated parking areas within a 300-m radius and district facilities (especially
schools). These lanes are intended as ‘green social streets,’ intercepting a number of
social places, and are endowed with urban oases where different facilities are provided according to their hierarchy (level of the street) and specific urban situation:
shade, seating, bio-ponds, water and electricity supply, bike sharing or car sharing,