Storie di imprese, storie di luoghi/Stories of Companies and Places

Recycling Industrial Districts is the twenty-eighth volume of the “Re-cycle Italy” series. The series returns intentions, results and events of a three-year research program – funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research – which has involved more than one hundred scholars in architecture, urban planning and landscaping from eleven Italian universities. “Re-cycle Italy” program targets the exploration and the development of new lifecycles for those spaces of the city and the territory that have lost meaning, use and care. This book gathers a set of projects concerning the ceramics district of Sassuolo, conceived as part of the research and teaching activities of a group of urban planners from Politecnico di Milano. The proposals are formulated on the basis of the belief that this district – as well as other Italian industrial districts undergoing transformation – will manage to remain attractive and viable only if urban planning will combine the needs of both enterprises and local community with urban, rural and natural quality.