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Reconstructing Italy - The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Reconstructing Italy - The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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