La visione dello sviluppo di Milano nella ricostruzione dopo la Seconda Guerra mondiale. Questioni di urbanistica, architettura e restauro nella realizzazione di una nuova arteria stradale nel centro storico, la ‘Racchetta’. Milan's development in the reconstruction after the Second World War. Issues of urban planning, architecture and restoration in the construction of a new road artery in the historic center, the "Racchetta".

After World War II, during the reorganization and preparation of programs for the urban-building revival of Milan, the so-called "Racchetta" was one of the most impactful realizations on the historical, building and monumental fabric of the city. Great crossing road with East-West course. planned to remove traffic from the historic center, and in particular from the Piazza del Duomo (on which until then the radial system of urban roads converged), the artery was built only in part, between the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, for the stretch that from the current Piazza S. Babila, through Corso Europa, Via Larga and Via Albricci, reaches Piazza Missori. The interruption of the route of the road, which according to the original plan should have closed in a ring converging towards the Castle, was the result of various political-administrative contingencies, but above all it was caused by the gradual awareness, by technicians and professionals, of the failure of the urban vision that had marked the project and that, without reaching the aim of lightening the urban traffic, had led to an inadmissible sacrifice in terms of devastation both for the historical fabric of the central districts and for the monumental heritage affected by the route. Despite its specificity, the case of Milan, one of the most bombar-date cities, and at the same time the economic and industrial engine of Italy, stands as an emblematic 'local' declination of the themes that characterize the overall national picture of the period, under the political, economic, social and cultural profile, when the country begins to rise again from the ruins of war.