Chapter 5: Snowfall on Piazza Castello: Stubborn dispositions and multiple publics in a (temporarily smart) Milanese square
Yulya Besplemmenovaa; Andrea Polliob,* a Oblo, Service Design and Research, Milan, Italyb Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia* Current address: Future Urban Legacy Lab, Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Abstract
This chapter charts the background, the implementation, and the aftermath of #nevicata14, an experiment of smart tactical urbanism in Milan. The aim of the experiment was to foreground the possibility of pedestrianizing a large monumental square, which had long been used as a busy car intersection. The chapter shows how tactical urbanism projects, even if ...
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