Abstract In the genre of handbooks, theory, practice, and history of urban planning and design were assembled. The books provided an important means to compile knowledge of the new discipline; they aimed to classify, arrange, and codify it, and to make it accessible for the education of future town planners as well as for practical …
Abstract Gustavo Giovannoni and his urban planning theories both constituted an important key reference for Angiolo Mazzoni, architect and engineer at the building department of the Ministry of Communications in Rome during fascism. As a student, he followed Giovannoni’s lectures at the engineering school in Rome. When Mazzoni was staying in Bologna during World War …
Abstract With her long-standing commitment to the Roman Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura and her work “Il giardino italiano” published in 1915 – the first book in Italy dedicated to Italian villa and garden art – the Contessa Maria Pasolini Ponti was substantially involved in the urban planning discourse of the early 20th …
Abstract The emergence of urban planning handbooks coincided with a series of technological and medial developments that fundamentally changed scholarly book and journal production in the 19th century, as well as the recording and perception of architectural, urban and landscape spaces. While new image media, papers, tools, machines, printing processes and reproduction techniques revolutionised the …
Abstract “Il Bel Paese, 1 progetto x 22.621 centri storici” demonstrates that preserving the value of permanence, despite any induced change, is an evolved and updated form of civic and planning responsibility. The 22,621 Italian historical centres draw the geography of a fragile territory, whose protection is possible only by devising a strategy of decentralisation …
Abstract Africa Big Change Big Chance shows the architecture and transformations that are taking place in Africa. These are changes that concern the control of large numbers and show enormous movements of people, the pressure caused by urbanisation, the incongruous use of natural resources and territories. Transformation, Big Change, and possibility, Big Chance, set the …
Abstract The preservation of the historic city, its conservation and modification, were the hypotheses of a long and heterogeneous collective project of European origin that has conveyed an idea of the city to the world. The design of the existing city is one of the most relevant and original Italian intellectual contributions to international research …
Abstract Architecture has always been configured as a discipline that assumes the responsibility for the continuous care of the physical world, and for its defence. The book shads light on the heated and multifaceted discussion carried out in Italy from the postwar war until the early 80’s on the policies and design efforts for the …
Abstract “Il Bel Paese, 1 progetto x 22.621 centri storici” demonstrates that preserving the value of permanence, despite any induced change, is an evolved and updated form of civic and planning responsibility. The 22,621 Italian historical centres draw the geography of a fragile territory, whose protection is possible only by devising a strategy of decentralisation …
Abstract A city of 11 million inhabitants, Wuhan has long remained isolated from major national policies, that first targeted the coastal provinces and then the Western region. However, a recent national interest for the municipalities along the Yangtze river corridor has enabled the municipal authorities to launch a voluntary process of metropolization. From the metropolitan …