Le aree produttive del Nord Est

The recent economic and financial crisis has driven attention upon industrial estates (even if it could fit better the definition of “productive areas”, because of the different activities developed there) which are great in number and spread all over Veneto region. That’s formerly for their economic decay and progressive abandon, then for their degraded and derelict condition, and now – with a dynamic rowth – for the need of improvement or new development to attract innovative activities and enterprises. Productive areas, therefore, ask for two main kind of intervention: recovery and rehabilitation of existing industrial estates for the improvement of infrastructures and the construction of new facilities’ equipments. Then, the development of new productive districts to attract advanced enterprises, mostly high-tech-based, knowledge-based, IoT-dependent, automation-driven, marked by a very high environmental quality. These propositions imply the integration of different uses in a sort of “hybridization” that totally refuses zoning rules. But it is important as well to outline the relations between productive areas and the surrounding contexts and landscapes, looking for innovative “visions”, policies, plans and projects implementing principles of sustainability and resilience and supporting economic growth. Those have been the main goals of DATA and iWRECKS research projects, attempting to develop a new approach in planning and design able to face the needs of the contemporary society.