Title: The Importance of the Spirit and the Sense of Place: Side Effects of the Underestimation of It in the Modernist’s Town Planning
Abstract:Does the spirit and the sense of place
influence the quality of life of inhabitants? Is it
possible to find any relationship between the
reactionary behavior of inhabitants of the so-called
French...Does the spirit and the sense of place
influence the quality of life of inhabitants? Is it
possible to find any relationship between the
reactionary behavior of inhabitants of the so-called
French banlieuse and the lack of the sense of the
place? The social-architectural evolution of those
quarters developed in Rome by the Institute for Social
Housing at the beginning of the 20th Century, gives us
the possible answers to the problems of nowadays
cities and to the improvement of life quality. Those
quarters, built for the working class, are considered the
best examples of urban-architectural composition of
the 20th Century; the real estate market valued those
houses like the historical centre, and the inhabitants
are extremely proud of their neighborhoods,
differently from what is happening in more recent
developments.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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