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Those neighbourhood are pedestrian nightmares, with no establishment at ground level, nothing to stop by, they are absolutely alienating to walk through.

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What does "no establishment at ground level" mean? It is in the middle of Milan, it's full of establishments, there is also Piazza Gae Aulenti three steps away. (I have been there several times)

That is outside the Bosco verticale.

Bosco Verticale consists of two residential buildings.

There's nothing else in the area around these buildings. It is a glass desert.

Doesn't the article say it also includes a very large park full of native plants in the same area?

Well not really, except for the park I guess, still Bosco Verticale is not in the middle of the park.

If by "glass desert" you mean that it's full of buildings covered in glass, then I suggest you actually visit Milan, because here it's really the opposite.

Just really to show my point: https://ibb.co/xhnnjtM, no glass desert of course, the other side has the park

But we aren't speaking for the entirety of Milano, were talking about that neighborhood

And your defence for that neighborhood seems to be "hey look the other neighborhood on it's side is not that bad"

So, yaeah.

"Those neighbourhood are pedestrian nightmares," - cit

When you're just talking in reality about two residential buildings and they are nightmares because these two residential buildings have no establishments (and no I cannot recross the road).

which is exactly the point I was trying to make, this place is terrifying to walk alone i.e. at office hours. nobody around, nothing at ground level, nowhere to stop by, just few cars and you.

People, normal one, not affluent one, live in the buildings on the West and North sides of that block. There are parks on the other two sides.

You clearly have never been there

wrong.

dude, I can hear you screaming that "the grapes are too sour", but come on... bosco verticale is gorgeous and I envy a lot who can afford to live there

look I just wanted to go for a walk and see the new milano, I got out sometimes in the morning at gioia and walked along the greenery, then turned toward piazza repubblica, and there was basically nothing open but the occasional bank and insurance office along the way. it's a terrible neighborhood for pedestrian.

Heck even crossing the street to get there was an unpleasant experience.

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