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Issue #02 - February 2017

CONTENTS

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Editorial note

Rome Development

History Timeline

Urban Plan History

Rome Urban Planning

Interview - ARUP Italia

Interview - Migliore + Servetto Architects

Venice and the High-Tide

What is a Community Garden?

Mobility Frameworks in Milan

Painting the City

EDITORIAL

Magazine N02 - Edition 2017

The second issue of our magazine continues our desire to un-derstand and research urban planning around the world. If you are not a follower on our social networks, become one today! We post (almost) daily inspirational, insightful and historical

photos and share knowledge about the built environment. Our planet is full of facinating and inspiring structures built with differentiating planning systems. Our goal is to share

information about these innovations, structures and the urban frameworks they were made from.

Erik Toresen - Managing Director

Italy Florence - Basilica of Saint Mary of the FlowerPhoto: Adam Smok / CC BY-SA 2.0

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aspect of urban planning. Every day we spread the message from our instagram account and hope you enjoy learning more about our environ-ment. We put a lot of effort into understanding urban planning in all the countries we analyze. We hope you value our work and take time to help

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It is my great pleasure to announce the second issue of the World Urban Planning Magazine. World Urban Planning puts great attention to

the promotion of social, environmental and sustainable solu-tions. As for all our issues, we describe and comment on the ur-ban planning frameworks which are the fundamental planning tools for allocating land use. Italy is a rather interesting country in terms of planning. It has some of the world’s greatest historical landmarks, beautiful landscapes and nature. It is one of the countries which will face a rapid change the coming years. Corruption, illegal building, and plans missing a clear implementation strategy has impacted the citizens, and still do. However, the recent plans, especially, for the Capitol has a more strategic approach to change this past.

Are you curious about how architects working in Italy think about the urban frameworks? Read about world famous Arup, and the smaller architect firm Migliore + Servetto Architects and their work and experiences with the planning system. As I look back on planning for this issue, I have many people to thank. I would like to thank Stefano Recalcati from Arup Italia for lending us a hand despite his busy schedule. I also want to thank Servetto and Migliore, Matteo Larese, and many others for their hard work. I moreover, want to take this time to thank everyone who sup-ported and contributed to the previous issue of the magazine and who continue to support our work. Thank you for making this magazine possible. I am very excited and feel honoured to share this issue with you.

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P H O T O G R A P H Y

Erik Toresen

Aidan Meyer

Venice

RomeNapoli

Milan

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U R B A N P L A N S

“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their

architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts”

Rebecca Solnit

P H O T O G R A P H Y

Greg MontaniAmalfi Coast

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SECOND PHASE OF PLAN OF CER-TAINTIES - 2003After the adoption of the first phase of the plan, one starts to review it and plan for the next stage. The new PRG in-troduces many new important elements, but within the traditional legal framework of the Planning Act of 1942. The plan’s content included:

1. History and nature become fundamental val-ues for the identity of Rome. They define the ar-eas not to be developed in any form and thus give guidance to where it is illegal to construct.

2. One forecasted an unchanged population growth compared to the plan of 1962. This did not mean that construction should be halted. Rather, the focus went to focus on creating quality by imple-menting public and private services and facilities.

3. The 5 strategic dimensions which were already de-fined in the Poster plan, but which were further sub-divided and developed. The plan stresses:

-The metropolitan context, which guides where to place and build buildings according to the PRG, Regional plans (especially plans for protected areas) and the provincial plans (Territorial Coordination plan).

-Rehabilitation and recovery of the existing city for better quality.

-Sustainability is analysed more carefully in terms of en-vironment and the ecological network.

-Accessibility to public transportation with focus on rail, and building close to public transport.

I M A G E B E L O W Rome Tibet RiverPhoto: Hernan Irastorza / CC BY 2.0

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-From the historic centre to a place: Overcoming that the “old town” is the central area and make it a place of historical value which is well integrated into the con-temporary city. This includes bringing the metro sys-tem into these old areas and giving the place an identity.

4. The polycentric spatial model and the new trans-portation link. The new PRG defines the future sys-tem of a metropolitan city linked by a rail transport system and an economic centre. Typical of the 20th century was that the public transportation made it possible to live in the periphery of the city, and the establishment of local urban areas for the districts.

5. Changing the traditional zoning. The new PRG, re-places the traditional discipline, towards a new dis-cipline founded on historical and type-morpholog-

ical characteristics of the existing urban fabric and definition of areas. The fabrics are defined within the historic city, the built city, and the city to renovate.

6. The method of equalisation and compensation to ensure the urban standards. The plan pro-vides better tools for implementing public ser-vices to citizens when building new constructions.

7. The new PRG introduces a procedure aimed at cre-ating quality design initiatives where one compares alternatives, and conducts careful verification of urban sustainability, environmental, economic and social impacts of the proposed initiatives, which should also ensure high levels of urban and environ-mental quality.

A B O U T M A T T E O L A R E S E G O R T I G O

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Italian city planner who loves to study and to discover the city in all its forms.Graduated IUAV (Institute of Architecture of Venice) in 2014 in “Planning and Policies for the city and the environment”, with the thesis “The Washington DC Experience for a cli-mate-proof city planning: a Toolkit for Climate Change”.Experiences abroad: European Master course at UAB University of Barcelona and US In-ternship at DCOP District of Columbia Office of Planning, Washington DC.Interests: City planning and city management, making city centers more vibrant.

“Creativity is not finding new landscapes, but having new eyes” - Marcel Proust

DID YOU KNOW?Venice is connected to the mainland by a single bridge,

designed in 1932 by engineer Eugenio Miozzi. The bridge, 3.85 km long (2.39 miles) with two lanes in each direction, was inaugurated by Benito Mussolini in 1933 as the “Ponte Littorio” and today it still represents the only access for road vehicles. The Railroad bridge was constructed first, in 1846, with two tracks

each way.At the end of World War II the bridge was renamed

“Ponte della Libertà” (Freedom Bridge), to honor the end of Fascist dictatorship and Nazi

occupation.

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P H O T O G R A P H Y L E F T

Matteo Larese Gortigo

Venice, ItalyPhoto: Daniele Bianchi

V E N I C E A N D T H E H I G H - T I D E

Founded around 800 B.C., Venice sees walking among its streets the most different cultures, ev-idence of an ancient history dating back from

before Roman times. A past that leaves its traces on every cor-ner and on every facade of those buildings, able to preserve the historical memory until today and protagonists of the passage of Roman and Byzantine emperors, doges and kings. For over a thousand years the city was the Capital of the Republic of Venice and has been the cradle of the Italian artistic culture, becoming a World Heritage Site in 1987. The city is located in the middle of the Venetian lagoon and communicates with the Adriatic sea through three main harbor entrances, which allow water to enter and to flood the city.

Monitoring the high-tideVenice has always lived with the issue of the high-tide phenom-ena, called by Italians “acqua alta”, but the first first records date back only to the 16th century.Despite the critical issues caused by the tidal waves, particularly to the maritime transportation within the city, the municipal-ity of Venice started to record these extreme tidal events only in the 19th century. The first systematic sea-level observations

Venice experiences a high rise of water which damages buildings and structures, what is done to protect the city and keep it as a popular tourist destination?

began in 1871, but at that time the collection of data was diffi-cult, due to the technology at the time. Thanks to progress, in 1906 it became possible to record the high tide phenomena in a continuous way.Throughout the years the tidal data has been obtained from dif-ferent sources. The last one is represented by the “Centro Previ-sioni e Segnalazioni Maree” institution, which has been moni-toring the sea level of the Venetian Lagoon since 1983, using a tidal gauge, located in the Canale della Giudecca (south of San Marco’s square). The tidal oscillations are constant inside the lagoon and take place almost every day, but this doesn’t mean that all kind of tides flood Venice. Tide levels that do not exceed +80 cm (+31 inch) from the standard 0 level are actually harmless for people and mobility within the city. This measure was taken conven-tionally because only with a sea level higher than 80 cm. the water starts to flood the city. The lowest areas, such as San Mar-co’s square, start suffering big problems related to the walkabil-ity and the transportation already at +80 cm., so that’s why at this level, Italians start saying “acqua alta”, literally “high water”.When the tide goes over +120 cm (47 inch), almost 30% of the city get flooded, and when the sea level exceeds +140 cm (55

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