Milano, post-metropoli?

The case of Milan's urban region, object of many important studies, is a privileged observatory of urban regionalization processes. Owing to the remarkable human, building, infra-structural density and administrative boundaries, of the basically continuous and extended form of the urbanized area, of the high levels of land consumption, as well as the intense fows of people, goods and information, Milan, more than other Italian urban realities, shows stronger post-metropolitan traits. The high tension among the different scales of 'city' and 'citizens,' but also among dynamics related to change, time and places for innovation production and path-dependency, highlights the need of a problematic reformulation of the right to the city and of a (post)metropolitan governmen