Format:
1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781317070306
Content:
Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized as experiments that created more social problems than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand out in contrast to their contemporaries both in terms of design and outcome. Unlike modernist high-rise housing projects of the period, Ina-Casa neighborhoods are picturesque and human-scaled and incorporate local construction materials and methods resulting in a rich aesthetic diversity. And unlike many other government forays into housing undertaken during this period, the Ina-Casa plan was, on the whole, successful: the neighborhoods are still lively and cohesive communities today. This book examines what made Ina-Casa a success among so many failed housing experiments, focusing on the tenuous balance struck between the legislation governing Ina-Casa, the architects who led the Ina-Casa administration, the theory of design that guided architects working on the plan, and an analysis of the results-the neighborhoods and homes constructed. Drawing on the writings of the architects, government documents, and including brief passages from works of neorealist literature and descriptions of neorealist films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino and others, this book presents a portrait of the postwar struggle to define a post-Fascist Italy
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Dedication -- Introduction: Reconstructing Italy -- Italian National Identity -- Social Housing in Context -- Chapter Outlines -- Part I The Development of The Ina-Casa Plan -- 1 The Development of the Ina-Casa Plan -- The Organization of the Ina-Casa Administration -- The Families of Ina-Casa -- Designing Ina-Casa -- 2 Envisioning a New Italy: The Projects Office of Ina-Casa -- Members of the Projects Office -- The Design Manuals -- An Analysis of the First Two Design Manuals -- Ina-Casa in Context -- Part II The Results of The Plan -- 3 Building Community: The Urban Planning and Design of Ina-Casa -- Visions and Realities of Urban Planning -- Functional Principles and Formal Outcomes -- The Legacy of Urbanism in Rome: From 1870 to the Second World War -- The Tiburtino, Rome -- Planning in Bologna -- Borgo Panigale, Bologna -- Planning in Matera -- Villa Longo, Matera -- 4 Building on Tradition: Appropriations of Local Histories in the Neighborhoods of Ina-Casa -- Techniques of Appropriation -- Contextualizing the Tiburtino, Rome -- Contextualizing Borgo Panigale, Bologna -- Contextualizing Villa Longo, Matera -- 5 Inside the Homes of Ina-Casa -- Ina-Casa Design Guidelines and Built Projects -- A Comparison of Housing Unit Plans -- The 1954 Milan Triennale -- Casa Rurale, UNRRAâCASA House in Matera -- Ina-CasaâICPM House -- INCIS House -- Part III The Reception And Legacy of Ina-Casa -- 6 Life in the Neighborhoods and Homes of Ina-Casa -- The Ina-Casa Survey of 1956 -- Urban Design and Community -- Architectural Characteristics -- Interior Features -- 7 The Critical Reception of Ina-Casa -- Questions of Leadership, Solidarity, and Conscience -- Urban Planning and Design
Content:
Debating Design and Technology -- Critiques of the Tiburtino Neighborhood -- Evaluating Ina-Casa -- Epilogue: An Architectural Legacy of Ina-Casa -- Appendix A Gazetteer of Selected Ina-Casa Neighborhoods -- Appendix B A Timeline of Events in Architecture, Politics, and Social Housing -- Appendix C Excerpts from the Ina-Casa Design Manuals -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
9781409465805
Additional Edition:
Print version Pilat, Stephanie Zeier Reconstructing Italy : The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era London : Taylor and Francis,c2016 9781409465805
Language:
English
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