Between Martesana and Villoresi: urban agriculture experiences

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Antonio Longo
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/60 Language Italian
Pages 5 P. 107-111 File size 236 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2012-060019
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The article describes an experience of surveying and planning agricultural outdoor spaces between the Villoresi and Martesana canals, a part of the Milan metropolis rich in landscape and environmental resources and parties interested in various ways in caring for and using them. The project was the result of a competition held by the Cariplo foundation, designed to create effective conditions for the results of the work to take root. There is then a local opportunity offered by two neighbouring towns Cernusco and Bussero, where farmers and local government administrators work, who knew how to experiment with new forms of managing agriculture within towns. The project, which was deliberately simplifi ed in terms of the form and management, tried to interpret these conditions, characterised by practices able to produce landscape over time and to generate long term physical and spatial results by means of actions with no immediately visible results.

Keywords: Urban agriculture; peri-urban outdoor spaces; planning

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Antonio Longo, Tra Martesana e Villoresi: esperienze di agricoltura urbana in "TERRITORIO" 60/2012, pp 107-111, DOI: 10.3280/TR2012-060019