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Carmen M. Enss (PhD) is an architectural historian and researcher on urban conservation at the University of Bamberg. She leads the research network UrbanMetaMapping, which investigates the mapping and transformation of European cities between 1939 and 1949.
Luigi Monzo (PhD) works as an architect in Germany. From 2017 to 2020 he taught architectural history and design at the University of Innsbruck, currently he teaches at the University of Biberach. His research addresses the intersections between architectural culture, design process, and political structures in totalitarian regimes, with a particular focus on architecture and urban planning in fascist Italy.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Editing Cities in Interwar Italy 9
Piacentini and Unitary Architectural Directions for Italian Cities 47
The Concept of Tradition in the Theoretical and Aesthetic Debate from the 1920s to the Second Post-War Period 61
Transformations in Architectural and Urban Culture in the Sant'Ambrogio Area of Milan between the World Wars 85
Transformation and the Vertical City: Milan's Early Skyscrapers 99
The Transformation of Rome and the Masterplan to Reconstruct Moscow: Historical Heritage between Modernity, Memory and Ideology 113
Preserving the Old to Build the Modern: Visions of an Alternative Brescia in the Project by Pietro Aschieri 127
The Townscape of Bari: A Laboratory of Italian Urbanism during the Early Twentieth Century 141
Bermago as a Case Study 155
Planning the Past I: Giulio Ulisse Arata; Urban Renewal in Emilia Romagna 171
Planing the Past II: Rimini and Forlì in the 1920s: The Replanning of Two Squares in Romagna 185
Architectural and Urban Transformations in Romagna during the Fascist Era between Tradition and Modernity: The Cases of Predappio, Forli and Imola 203
Autarchy and Tradition in the Architecture during Italy's Fascist Period: Newly Founded Cities 221
Urban Expansions in Venice, 1918-1939: Continuity of the Urban Form in the Internal Periphery of the Residential Area of Santa Maria 233
Innocenzo Sabbatini and the Construction of Modern Rome 247
Acknowledgements 261
'Terms and Conditions' of Interwar Architecture and Urbanism in Italy: A Tentative Glossary 263
Authors 271