Lombardy is being cemented over. Every day over 100,000 square meters of farmland, fields and woods of the Padan Plain are lost to new housing developments, shopping malls, and industrial zones due to re-zoning motivated by politics and profit. Mistaken for a sign of progress, the accelerated rate of land consumption in the last 10 years is drastically changing the physical landscape.<%YOUTUBE=Q-MsVQwf1z8%>
