Vice President of the National Institute of Urban Planning – INU; Member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. Programme in Urban Planning, Design and Policy UPDP of Politecnico di Milano; director of the Lab_PPTE – Plans, Landscape, Territories and Ecosystem at the Dep. of Architecture and Urban Studies; member of the scientific committee of the Urban Simulation Lab. “Fausto Curti”; scientific Director of the national Land Take Research Centre – CRCS.

He is member of the editorial board of the journal “Urbanistica”.

Many of his research projects and publications focus on planning and urban design.

Main interests include: urban planning and design; urban projects and negotiated planning processes assessment; landscape planning; planning tools; open spaces design; ecosystem analysis and policies for land take limitation He has been consultant of Public Administrations and designer of town and territorial plans. Member of the Scientific Committee for the new Town Plan (PGT) of the City of Milan (2012) and Project leader of the research group for the new Landscape Plan of Regione Lombardia.

Selected publications

* Arcidiacono A., Ronchi S., Salata S., Ghirardelli F., (2017), “Mapping Habitat Quality in the Lombardy Region, Italy”, One Ecosystem (ISSN:2367-8194), vol. 2, pp. 1-8, Pensoft Publishers.

* Arcidiacono A., Ronchi S., Salata S., (2016), Managing Multiple Ecosystem Services for Landscape Conservation: A Green Infrastructure in Lombardy Region, World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium WMCAUS 2016, Prague, in Drusa M., Yilmaz I., Marschalko M., Coisson E., Segalini A., (Eds), Procedia Engineering, Vol. 161, Special Issue, Elsevier, (ISSN 1877-7058).

* Arcidiacono A., Bottero M., Oppio A., (2016), “A multi-methodological evaluation approach for assessing the impact of neighbourhood quality on public health – Valutare l’impatto della qualità urbana sulla salute pubblica: un approccio multi-metodologico”, Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, n. 40 (3-4), pp. 249 – 256;

* Arcidiacono A., Fior M., Pasqui G., (2016), “Governare il paesaggio. Sfide per il PPR lombardo”, Territorio, n. 77, pp. 15-24, Franco Angeli, Milano;

* Arcidiacono A., Di Simine D., Oliva F., Salata S., Ronchi S. (a cura di), (2015), Nuove sfide per il suolo. Rapporto 2016 CRCS, INU Edizioni, Roma.

* Arcidiacono A., Bruzzese A., Gaeta L., Pogliani L. (2015), Governare i territori della dismissione in Lombardia. Caratteri contesti prospettive, Maggioli Editore, Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna.

* Arcidiacono A., Pogliani L., (2014), “Realismo operativo. Strategie pubbliche per rilanciare le trasformazioni incompiute | Operational Realism. Public strategies to revive unfinished redevelopments”, Urbanistica, n. 152, pp. 50 – 64

* Arcidiacono A., Pogliani L. (2011), Riforma o crisi del governo urbano, Edizioni Et/al;

* Arcidiacono A., Galuzzi P., Pogliani L., Solero E., Vitillo P., Il Piano Urbanistico di Milano (PGT 2012) – The Milan Town Plan (PGT 2012), Wolters Kluwer Italia, Milano.

The aim of “Volare” is to work out a feasibility study, able to comply with general objectives of the Fondazione Cariplo’s tender “Connessioni Ecologiche”. Which relates the enhancement of the environmental heritage through the realization, the development and the strengthening of terrestrial and fluvial ecological corridors. “Volare” will enable the connection of important natural areas in order to maintain the biodiversity.

The realization of this ecological connections will be integrated in the northern part of the Lambro river, which covers the territory in the valley of Milano and includes the areas of the communities of San Donato Milanese, San Giuliano Milanese and Melegnano. The territory where “Volare” should be performed are defined from the PTC (Piano Territoriale di Coordinamento) of Milano as “area with a high relevance for the river terrain” and “area of relevance for the river terrain” congruent downstream the Lambro river and the Vettabbia river.

The plan norm describes the “Volare” territory as areas, which are characterized with the presence of elements with a geomorfological, natural, fluvial or historical interest. The landscape was created by the natural flow of water, the morphology, the nature, the culture and the historical architecture. Landscapes who have a need for appreciation can also be included in the project, the intervention process can up value this zones.

The intention of the feasibility study is to examine the conditions for the realization of ecological connections along the corridors. A special focus is on particular critical parts like the housing areas in Melegnano, where the Lambro passes a highly urbanized area and loses thereby it’s naturalness.

It is necessary to check also the planned infrastructure projects, that could be potentially concurrent with the “Volare” project. Especially the milanese part of the Lambro river gets a big attention regarding the integration of connections in the vast area. Relating to the Lambro there exist numerous ability plans, which were put in a internal system of the project supported by Cariplo with the title “The open spaces, the natural agricultural areas, the Lambro and the metropolitan region around Milano. An Example of activating an ecological network”.

text by Legambiente Lombardia

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He is a member of Ecosystem Service Partnership (ESP) and a member of
National Research Centre on Land Take – ITALY (CRCS).

Co-editor of Italian National Reports on land take (2010, 2012, 2014
and 2016) of CRCS. He is also co-author of the book “L’insostenibile
consumo di suolo” (Edicom Edizioni, 2013), of the chapter “Policy and
good practices” of the book “Urban Expansion, Land Cover and Soil
Ecosystem Services” edited by Ciro Gardi (Routledge, in press) and
many international publications on land take and its effect on
Ecosystem Services.

This seminar aims to reflect on the theme of the open space design at the regional scale of planning and urban design. It explores the issues of green and blue infrastructure for landscape and ecosystem services in Lombardy and Sardinia Regions and in some relevant regional case studies.

Speakers:

\\ Andrea Arcidiacono , Silvia Ronchi, Stefano Salata, Politecnico di Milano
Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructures and Landscape Planning in Lombardy

\\ Corrado Zoppi, Sabrina Lai, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Land cover changes related to different natural protection levels: An analysis concerning Sardinia

\\ Gioia Gibelli, Italian Society of Landscape Ecology
Green and blue infrastructures for the ecological planning

Discussant: Nilva Karenina Aramburu Guevara, Lorenzo De Vidovich

Keywords: green infrastructure, landscape and regional planning, ecosystem services, regional scale

Speakers:

\\ Cynthia Echave, Agencia de Ecología Urbana de Barcelona
Green Infrastructure Planning in Compact Cities. The case of Barcelona, Spain

\\ Carlo Gasparrini, Università degli Studi di Napoli
Sustainable Infrastructure in Urban planning and design in Naples

\\ Kimmo Lapintie, Mina Di Marino, Aalto University Helsinki
The ecosystem infrastructure of the new metropolitan masterplan of Helsinki, Finland

Discussant: Giulia Marra, Caio Penko

Keywords: green infrastructures, landscape and regional planning, ecosystem services, metropolitan scale