Analyzing Fringe Belt Phenomenon in the Historico – Geographical Structure of Milan, Italy

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https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2018.56

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urban development, fringe belt formation, land use, transformation, modification

Abstract

The object of this paper is to identify the specific land use patterns in relation to a general framework of the fringe belts formation and modification through the urban expansion of Milan, a city with solid Italian planning tradition, by defining strong characteristics and land use transformations through comparative map analysis in a consistent timeline period.

Adapting the study of fringe belts, as signatures of the pulsations of urban growth, and a reflection of urban space needs beyond those of the residential and retail sectors, is pertinent as it contributes to understand each phase of city alteration and urban growth and relate them to economic and political forces linked to the contemporary development of metropolitan areas.  Applied adequately, fringe belt studies have been taken in different parts of Europe, but few have been done in Italy. This research, as a comparative study of superposition data approach, has aimed to verify the true development pattern of a city with dynamic typo-morphological transitions, with powerful industrial and service sector shifts recently, strictly reflecting on the shaping of the overall urbanized territory.

A general study of the urban evolution has been undertaken and development of the municipality has been observed with a focus on defining land use maps, and obtaining a comparative data analyzes by overlapping and tracking land use transformations and expounding fringe belt modifications through different expansion periods of the urban territory. In the contemporary city, fringe belts can play crucial role as vast green open spaces for recreation and leisure, natural boundaries from harmful industrial surroundings, as well as ecological corridors and mediums for natural systems maintenance and natural remedy to improve the quality of life and provide healthier environments for the overall urban systems.

Adapting the study of fringe belts in a regulated conceptual framework, and referring them into the historico-geographical structure of the urban development could lead up to adequate planning and urban design strategies that aim to improve the quality of life in contemporary urban landscapes.

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Author Biographies

Dzheylan Safet Karaulan

Dzheylan Safet Karaulan is MSc student in Urban Design in Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. She got her B.Sc. degree in Architecture at Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy in September 2015. She is currently obtaining her MSc in Architecture in University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria. She enrolled in MSc in Urban Design in Istanbul Technical University in 2017 and her recent research interests are Resilience Planning and Design Strategies and their adaptation to the urban form and growth. She worked as an intern in architecture and construction offices in Sofia, as well as coordinated a restoration project in Ohrid, accepted by the Ministry of Culture in Macedonia in 2017.

Ayşe Sema Kubat, Istanbul Technical University

Dr. Ayşe Sema Kubat has degrees of B. Arch and M. Arch and PhD in Urban Design & Urban Planning from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). She is currently working as a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning of ITU.  She has been serving on the Steering and Refereeing Committees of the Space Syntax Symposiums since 2003, and was the chair of the 6th International Space Syntax Istanbul Symposium in June, 2007.  Her assistance and cooperation to the research project entitled 21st Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) (2003- 2008) is appreciated as “Honorary Fellow of Global Center of Excellence " at Tokyo University.  Dr. Kubat is the chair of the Turkish Network of Urban Morphology and the chair of the 2nd Local Conference of the Network at 2018 at ITU, İstanbul.

 

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28-12-2018

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Karaulan, D. S., & Kubat, A. S. (2018). Analyzing Fringe Belt Phenomenon in the Historico – Geographical Structure of Milan, Italy. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 6(2), 304–332. https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2018.56

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