tur(i)ntogreenongoing projects
what’s going on?Here’s a little guide with the
ongoing and existing projects that are aready taking part in South
Mirafiori. They’re worth to be looked at.
MiraortiVov 102 Farmer’s Market
Turisti Per CasaCascina Roccafranca
Torino Nuova Economia (TNE) (Cit-tadella politecnica del design e della
mobilità sostenibile)Corso Marche Axis (Mirafiori Square
and Agricultural Park)Underground Railway Line 2
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www.piemonte.coldiretti.it
Miraorti
Vov 102 Farmer’s Market
Turin municipality, that deals with agriculture in urban areas A new way to face with the urban transformation focusing on social relations, bringing together stakeholders, citizens and institutions. Aim of the project is to increase the understanding and knowledge
project led by Coldiretti to organize a “100% Italian food supply chain”, the so called short supply chain, where only locally produced products can be found. The decision to organize the market in the ur-ban area is to allow the initia-tive to spread wide in a large
of this important district of the city, to involve citizens at local and urban level, to experience a methodology to legalize and organize private illegal allot-ments, fostering to strengthen the image of Mirafiori as the agro-urban district of the city.
potential market, but also to see how this can contribute to the district regeneration. In VOV 102 farmer market, via Onorato Vigliani 102, without going to the farms, people can find locally and seasonally produced food with high quali-ty at reasonable prices.
Miraorti is a project started in October 2011 during the regen-eration of the area comprised between the stream Sangone and South Mirafiori neigh-bourhood. It’s a participative design process in support of
The project is ajoint collabora-tion among Turin Municipality, Enzo B Onlus and Coldiretti [farmers trade union]. It’s a farmer market selling directly to private local food. This pro-ject is part of a wider National
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www.fondazionemirafiori.it/turistipercasa
www.cascinaroccafranca.it
Turisti Per Casa
Cascina Roccafranca
to leave their home keys in the hand of visitors, hosted in part of the too big apart-ments or other available spaces in the neighbourhood.The initial project success has moved many landlords to start the experiment. A third
activity and service focuses on values such as participa-tion and integration.
B&B will be opened soon, along with a new project for touristic visits in the area.
The challenge for Turisti per casa project is to attract tour-ists at South Mirafiori, aiming to create a hospitality network with neighbourhood B&B, to host visitors. The unusual side is to convince the sceptical citizens
Roccafranca farm is a cultural centre. A place where to par-ticipate to Mirafiori life, to meet neighbours, to spend some times expanding hobbies and interests. There are no other centres in Turin, where every
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TNE
Cittadella Politecnica del design e della mobilità sostenibile
Municipality (40%), Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A (10%) and Turin Provincia (10%). Mirafiori industrial areas are over-all more than 300.000 m2 comprised of warehouses, office buildings and free areas, already on the market.
on more than 7.000 m2 for higher education in the fields of industrial design and au-tomotive, involving more than 1500 students.
A general master plan for some of the areas has been developed recently.
TNE is a PP company cre-ated in 2009 to regenerate the neighbourhood and to increase property values in Mirafiori, acting on the are-as that FIAT has sold to the company. Partners are the Piemonte Region (40%), Turin
One of the very first important clues in the regeneration of Miarafiori jigsaw has been the creation of the Design Centre. It covers 21.000 m2, localized within the Ex DAI warehouse; available spaces and facilities
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www.provincia.torino.gov.it/speciali/corso_marche
Corso Marche Axis
Mirafiori Square
south), both touched by the ring road. It will work as a urban linear facility with local and metropolitan services. As south end of the axis there will be Piazza Mirafio-ri, with a mixed function of residences and services for
higher education and indus-try, now moving in the area dismissed by FIAT.
Corso Marche is meant to be one of the three urban backbones in the future Turin, along with the river Po and the “Spina”. It will pass by Collegno and Grugliasco, connecting Venar-ia (at north) to Beinasco (at
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Agricultural Park
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>>reservoir, not being affected by the industrial revolution. The aim is to keep the exist-ing farms working, decreasing the physical pressure around the area caused by factories,
houses and warehouses, get-ting a new high environmental standard to city boundary areas.
The area comprised in the Agricultural Park is an exam-ple of how was the farming and irrigation system in the Turin surroundings, using Dora and Sangone as water
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www.infrato.it/it/infrastrutture/page/linea-2--28metro-29
Underground Railway Line 2
15 km. Length. The southern part of it will be realized as second bit and will end at the Cemetery “Parco”
After the realization of the underground railway line 1, the line 2 will be realized to connect north eastern areas with south western one’s, with
Case studies + other information • www.torinobimbi.it/notizie/agro-housing-e-orti-urbani-per-educare-i-bambini.html
• http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/07/18/news/i_braccianti_extracomunitari_diventano_i_nuo-vi_contadini-39236193/
• www2.lastampa.it/2012/07/20/cronaca/bollettino-di-guerra-per-l-agricoltura-perse-mi-la-aziende-i-SiVZsGV0gQnNosABk37ccJ/index.html
• www.ilmitte.com/orti-urbani-la-technische-universitat-ne-rivela-i-pericoli/
• www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/urban-farming-new-york-brooklyn-grange_n_1702175.htm-l?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
• www.cascinafalchera.it/
• www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=268027246631581&set=a.162462340521406.24200.161933300574310&type=1&theater
• http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/namarchetti/54516/village-green-reimagining-high-rise
• www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150951223302056&set=a.93042217055.101680.14994122055&-type=1&theater
• www2.lastampa.it/2012/08/04/cronaca/tre-miliardi-di-euro-per-cambiare-pelle-alla-torino-del-Dn7d-J5lm6amKCBpCi0i7bK/index.html
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• http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/43999
• http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/08/03/news/torino_salvi_i_suoi_campi_e_i_contadini_invisibi-li-40258074/
• www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150959127212163&set=a.10150891045922163.409576.133471887162&type=1&theater
• http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/all/1064?ref=navbar
• http://inspirationgreen.com/vertical-farms.html
• www.ted.com/talks/pam_warhurst_how_we_can_eat_our_landscapes.html
• www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/
• http://lesjardins.ca/
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