The farmland we see today around the Milan area is the result of centuries of human intervention on the environment to regulate water, adapt the land to the emergence of new farming techniques, and to map out ownership or administrative borders. Major anthropization of the territory today overlaps with a cultural need to restore some [...]

The Milan Outer Eastern Bypass runs alongside the municipality of Pozzuolo Martesana and the Alto Martesana Supra-Municipal Interest Park (PLIS). The project for this area consists of planting tall trees along two broad swathes of some 2 ha each to buffer the long stretch running between the commercial plots envisaged under the PGT plan, south [...]

Water provides the common thread of the work Tangenziale Esterna SpA is to implement under the “Muzza-Villambrera” Special Environmental Project. The SEP calls for building a new cycle/pedestrian path linking various points of natural interest in the municipalities of Paullo and Zelo Buon Persico. From the centre of Paullo, the paths will provide sustainable mobility [...]

This Special Environmental Project principally affects the zone to the north of the built-up area of Melegnano, where the “Via Emilia” SS 9 road enters the municipality. The project objective is to augment strips of woodland to protect the two watercourses while at the same time implementing an area of shrubs to mitigate the impact [...]

The “Lambro-Melegnano” Special Environmental Project covers the municipal areas of Melegnano, Cerro al Lambro and Vizzolo Predabissi. This highly-urbanized area is crisscrossed by major road and rail links (first and foremost, the A1 Milan-Naples motorway and the Milan-Bologna railway); it is also traversed by the meandering River Lambro. It is here that Tangenziale Esterna (TE) [...]