Transformation and the Vertical City: Milan's Early Skyscrapers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction
4. Editing Cities in Interwar Italy 9
5. Tradition, Architecture, Homogenization
6. Piacentini and Unitary Architectural Directions for Italian Cities 47
7. The Concept of Tradition in the Theoretical and Aesthetic Debate from the 1920s to the Second Post-War Period 61
8. Urban Transformations
9. Transformations in Architectural and Urban Culture in the Sant'Ambrogio Area of Milan between the World Wars 85
10. Transformation and the Vertical City: Milan's Early Skyscrapers 99
11. The Transformation of Rome and the Masterplan to Reconstruct Moscow: Historical Heritage between Modernity, Memory and Ideology 113
12. Preserving the Old to Build the Modern: Visions of an Alternative Brescia in the Project by Pietro Aschieri 127
13. The Townscape of Bari: A Laboratory of Italian Urbanism during the Early Twentieth Century 141
14. Bermago as a Case Study 155
15. Restorations and Invention
16. Planning the Past I: Giulio Ulisse Arata; Urban Renewal in Emilia Romagna 171
17. Planing the Past II: Rimini and Forlì in the 1920s: The Replanning of Two Squares in Romagna 185
18. Architectural and Urban Transformations in Romagna during the Fascist Era between Tradition and Modernity: The Cases of Predappio, Forli and Imola 203
19. Autarchy and Tradition in the Architecture during Italy's Fascist Period: Newly Founded Cities 221
20. City Extensions
21. Urban Expansions in Venice, 1918-1939: Continuity of the Urban Form in the Internal Periphery of the Residential Area of Santa Maria 233
22. Innocenzo Sabbatini and the Construction of Modern Rome 247
23. Acknowledgements 261
24. ’Terms and Conditions’ of Interwar Architecture and Urbanism in Italy: A Tentative Glossary 263
25. Authors 271