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New PDF release: Reconstructing Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the

By Stephanie Zeier Pilat

ISBN-10: 1138248436

ISBN-13: 9781138248434

ISBN-10: 1409465802

ISBN-13: 9781409465805

Reconstructing Italy strains the postwar transformation of the Italian kingdom via an research of the Ina-Casa plan for operating type housing, tested in 1949 to deal with the employment and housing crises. govt backed housing courses undertaken after WWII have usually been criticized as experiments that created extra social difficulties than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand out unlike their contemporaries either when it comes to layout and final result. in contrast to modernist high-rise housing initiatives of the interval, Ina-Casa neighborhoods are picturesque and human-scaled and contain neighborhood development fabrics and techniques leading to a wealthy aesthetic range. and in contrast to many different executive forays into housing undertaken in this interval, the Ina-Casa plan used to be, almost always, profitable: the neighborhoods are nonetheless full of life and cohesive groups at the present time. This booklet examines what made Ina-Casa successful between such a lot of failed housing experiments, targeting the tenuous stability struck among the laws governing Ina-Casa, the architects who led the Ina-Casa management, the idea of layout that guided architects engaged on the plan, and an research of the results-the neighborhoods and houses built. Drawing at the writings of the architects, govt records, and together with short passages from works of neorealist literature and outlines of neorealist movies by means of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino and others, this booklet offers a portrait of the postwar fight to outline a post-Fascist Italy.

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