Rural Town – Pontina

Aereal View of Pontinia 1935 (Archivio Storico TCI, Milano. Published in Besana, R. Fabrizio Carli, C. Devoti, L., Prisco, L. (a cura di) *Metafisica Costruita. Le città di fondazione degli anni Trenta dall’Italia all’Oltremare*, Milano: Touring Club Italiano 2002, p. 91)

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Pontinia is the third of the New Towns built in Agro Pontino after the reclamation of the Pontine marshes. It was part of a larger territorial scheme based on the triad city-village-farm (città-borgo-podere), aiming to develop a new agricultural productive system and a new social model based on a new relationship between city and countryside.

Bibliography

Less, L., and M. E. Marinelli. “Pontinia. Polarità Rurale.” In Restituiamo la storia. Dal Lazio all'Oltremare. Modelli insediativi della piana pontina, edited by S. Zevi, 42-55. Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2016.

Margione, E. “Italians New Towns as an Experimental Territory for the Modern Movement in Italy. The case Study of Oriolo Frezzotti and his architecture for public facilities in Littoria, Sabaudia and Pontinia.” Regionalism, Nationalism & Modern Architecture conference proceedings. Oporto: CEAA Centro Estudio Arnaldo Araújo, 2018. 2020-220.

Mariani, R. Fascismo e città nuove. Milano: Feltirnelli, 1976.

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