This book collects the outcomes of the workshop 'Linking territories. Rurality, landscape and urban borders' conjointly organised by the PhD course in Urban Planning, Design and Policy (UPDP) at the Politecnico di Milano and the Post-Master "Architecture des Milieux" at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture de Paris. The workshop has had a double aim; to widen the view of the relationship between urban and rural areas by involving different groups of research and practice, and to define experimental proposals able to imagine new spaces for the co-habitation of urban and rural ways of life, in the end redefining the concept of rurality and its relation with the urban condition.
Carried out from May until September 2015, the workshop focused on the western part of the city of Milan. Three areas in particular have been explored: Muggiano, Boscoincittà / Parco delle Cave / Parco di Trenno and Piazza d'Armi / Parco Parri / Calchi Taeggi.
