Il commercio nei programmi di riqualificazione urbana a Milano

Abstract

El comercio siempre se ha considerado un sector importante en la economía de Milán, pero su papel estratégico en las transformaciones urbanas recientes se ha tenido poco en cuenta. Hasta la mitad de los años 80, cuando millones de metros cuadrados de zonas ferroviarias o industriales aparecieron en el mercado, solo unos pocos centros comerciales y grandes superficies existían en Milán, la mayoría localizadas en la periferia y en el área metropolitana, a menudo a lo largo de rondas y vías de acceso principales. La posibilidad de realizar proyectos de transformación introduciendo nuevas funciones urbanas, entre éstas la de los grandes centros comerciales, gracias al apoyo del gobierno nacional y regional, ha cambiado rápidamente el modelo de los asentamientos comerciales en Milán. No todos los

Retail has always been considered an important sector of the Milan economy, but its strategical role in recent urban transformations has been rarely taken in account. Until the half of the 80s, when millions of square metres of brownfields have appeared in the real estate market, only few shopping malls or great supermarkets existed in Milan, whilst most of the great commercial implantations had been located in the outskirts and in the metropolitan area, often along the main radial roads and infrastructural nodes. The possibility of realizing transformation projects introducing new urban functions, among them large commercial sites, in the brownflelds, facilitated by specific national and regional Acts, has rapidly changed the model of retail settlements in Milan. Not all the projects have been successful, both on the point of view of urban design and of the enhancing of the urban sector in which they were located and on the point of view of the commercial impact.