Giovannoni e Bari

Abstract

In the Fascist era, Gustavo Giovannoni played a fundamental role in planning the historic center of Bari, even though he did not take on direct urban planning tasks. The “Bari Vecchia” became a fundamental test for the theories of ‘diradamento’, even if some expectations were not met, especially as regards the administrative and economic feasibility profiles of the procedures, which Giovannoni considered not secondary. Petrucci's plan (1930) for the renovation of the "Bari Vecchia" faithfully reflects Giovannoni's ideas, and the plan realizes them in architectural terms, but the absence of an experimental legislation on the subject of building consortia makes the implementation phase of the plan slow and difficult.