Productive micro-districts. An asset available for adaptive projects?

This reflection deals with the adaptive renewal of productive areas and is supported by the results of the research project Aree Produttive - Aree Pro-adattive AP+A (Productive Areas, Pro-Adaptive Areas) (https://www.areeproadattive.polimi.it), carried out by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano and funded by the Ministry for Ecological Transition (MiTE). The research project, related to the metropolitan area of Milan, has carried out activities to spread the culture of sustainability and to promote projects and actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change in productive areas. As other urban and metropolitan contexts, productive areas contribute significantly to determining critical phenomena such as heat islands, inefficiency of surface drainage, poor quality of open spaces, public and public-private thresholds, in general, urban liveability. The proposal of the project is to promote productive micro-districts and a model of governance aimed at encouraging stable, direct and organised interaction between private and public bodies to carry out adaptive regeneration projects.