Il futuro di Expo 2015 in una metropoli a progetto

Planning Disaster, Successful Event, and Uncertain Future: The Twin Cases of the World Expo 2015 and Innovation District in Milan

“…It builds variable coalitions and strategies commensurate with each transformation's peculiarity, mixing up the coalitions of actors and the aims of projects based on a broad spectrum of local powers, with a cautious opening towards outsiders. 60 As a city with robust institutional and civil pluralism, Milan has been managing for decades a case-by-case pattern of post-industrial transformation through variable coalitions of public and private stakeholders. Expo/Mind corroborates the traditional polyarchy and character of a "metropolis by project", where urban planning does not aim to select projects on the basis of wider strategies but to provide mediation to conflicts.…”