Unpacking Parco Agricolo Sud through a socio-spatial production perspective

Parco Agricolo Sud is a fringe area shaped by restrictive land use regulations and its proximity to Milan. The result is an accelerated urban-rural transition with high rural spatial qualities that enables the territory to be used and envisioned from different perspectives, often colliding and contested. From that of the citizen, the administration, the farmer, and the entrepreneur. By identifying these interpretations through grounded endeavors, this article attempts to unveil new relations and local narratives shaping this territory that can contribute to reenvisioning its future and pending plan.