In line with its mission, the Milano Metropoli Development Agency has always pursued a local development model that would innovate and strengthen local governance. Our aim is to promote and boost our area's ability to think, plan and work - as a collective player - towards a scenario of sustainable local development.

To this end, the Agency proposes and develops processes involving the participation and coordination of both public and private local players and their initiatives. Such processes are targeted at sharing a vision of development and promoting and implementing initiatives that respect that vision.

The local governance projects run by Milano Metropoli cover a range of different issues (sustainable mobility, culture, economic and industrial development, urban regeneration, etc.) and affect different urban areas of greater Milan.

Some of the most significant projects currently under way are:

• Patto Nord Milano (since 2005)
  The Pact for North Milan is a supra-municipal cooperation agreement between seven Milanese towns and the Province of Milan. The towns involved joined the Pact in order to work out a coordinated approach to key factors for their development (culture, housing, social, health and hospital services, industrial premises and facilities, green areas, infrastructure, Expo 2015, etc.). Within the context of this Pact, and coordinated by Milano Metropoli, North Milan's seven municipalities (Bresso, Cinisello Balsamo, Cologno Monzese, Cormano, Cusano Milanino, Paderno Dugnano and Sesto San Giovanni) have drawn up a Strategic Project and an Area Plan and, in 2008, they set up the Conferenza dei Comuni del Nord Milano. This is a permanent coordinating assembly for the integration of development policies, programming and planning functions and services for the whole area (see the in-depth file).
  
  
• 4 parks on two wheels (2008-2009)
  The aim of the project, financed by Fondazione Cariplo, is to develop an interconnected network of bike-stations and sustainable mobility routes that link up four parks in northern Milan with the local public transport system. The project grew out of the local development strategies for improving the quality of life in the area included in Milano Metropoli's North Milan Area Plan. The first strategic goal to be identified was to create an integrated network of parks. The Agency is contributing to the realization of the project with the North Milan Green Area System, which includes the North Milan Regional Park (project leader) and parks of supra-municipal interest (Plis) Media Valle del Lambro, Balossa and Grugnotorto Villoresi.  Once completed, the project could also improve physical links between 9 Milanese towns (Bresso, Cinisello Balsamo, Cologno Monzese, Cormano, Cusano Milanino, Paderno Dugnano, Sesto San Giovanni, Novate Milanese and Brugherio).
  
  
• Linea Verde (2008-2009)
  The "Green line project: re-thinking the metro and the railways to serve the area" involves re-developing the urban and local contexts close to ten M2 stations of the Milanese metro along the river Martesana. Milano Metropoli was charged with planning and coordinating the instruments and local players' participation and governance processes: exchanges of ideas with the local authorities and other players interested in the initiative; defining a collection of instruments, forms of partnerships and procedures for implementing local area improvement processes; identifying possible sources of financing in the various transformation contexts singled out by the project; drawing up an "agreement" shared with those taking part in the above exchanges of ideas in order to define the what/how/when/where for a further operative/planning stage. Milano Metropoli is working alongside the Centro Studi PIM and with the Milan Politecnico's Department of Architecture and Planning (DiAP).