The economic impacts of con(temporary) urban regeneration processes: the case of Milan

Abstract

Considering the growing importance and widespread adoption of temporary approaches to urban transformations, the paper deals with the open research challenge of understanding the economic impacts of tactical urban interventions. Moving from a literature review on the impacts of urban regeneration projects, it proposes an investigation approach from a local economy growth perspective. This approach is applied to the “Piazze Aperte” programme, which was implemented by the municipality of Milan in 2018. Its preliminary results return a possible positive contribution of tactical urban experiences on the reference neighbourhoods’ business dynamics. It seems to unfold about the different neighbourhoods’ specificities and the intervention area’s urban morphology.