The company town of Crespi d’Adda, inserted in
the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1995,
needs new attentions to ensure the preservation
and the development of buildings as well as of its
own territorial area.
The houses and the public buildings require suitable
maintenance and redevelopment interventions,
even under preservation logics.
Factory buildings, today completely in disuse, ask
for new destinations for new economic cycles.
From the social point of view, since characteristics
of the resident inhabitants changed through
the years, at the moment it’s not possible a proper
generation turnover without the introduction
of new occupational markets together with a redevelopment of networks and community
services.
On the other hand, from a tourist point of view,
there are wide possibilities to increase the offer,
especially for the cultural related one.
The Management Plan, as set and requested by
UNESCO as the instrument aimed to govern the
necessary changes, consists in a structured programme
which will be developed through the
years in relation to the amount and to the
resources quality that will be provided by the
subjects involved in the programme.
Therefore the most suitable strategy, to lead the
company town of Crespi d’Adda and its territory
towards necessary and evolutionary processes -
no more possible to postpone - controlled and
consistent with its history and its values, seems to
request a review of the whole residential system
according to renewed and maybe original valuations
of its potential and capacity.
In consideration of the above mentioned
approach useful and well tested reading and
governing instrument of the changes of the single
building, is now re-organized to revisions on
grand-scale, to micro-urban level and according
to systemic logics.Therefore the valuations of
residual potentials - economic, cultural, use values,
opportunities and limits - detectable or that
can be improved are referred to the territorial
scale.
Safety of urban system’s users, comfort, usability,
appearance, urban system management and the
environmental preservation are the standards
which have been used to take into account
urban services.
Thanks to the above mentioned valuations a
supported awareness has been gained in relation
to the opportunities and limits, to the potentials
and weaknesses showed by the whole urban system
of Crespi d’Adda in comparison with its
development potential