Just east of Milan, in the municipality of Segrate, lies Milano 2, a residential development built in the 1970s by Silvio Berlusconi (long before he became Italy’s infamous prime minister). At the time, Berlusconi was a businessman, not yet involved in politics, working in real estate development. Milano 2 was one of his first major projects. The development Built on approximately 712,000 square metres of land acquired from the Municipality of Segrate, the neighbourhood was conceived as an alternative to the dense and poorly planned suburban developments that were appearing on Milan’s outskir…