Gli urbanisti, l'ambiente e la città. Tecnica e politica in italia negli ultimi quarant'anni del Novecento

Beginning in the Sixties, a trend in town-planning studies known of "reformist" developed in Italy, largely revolving around the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (NationalIinstitute for Town-Planning Stdies). The trend marked a deep change in land management concepts. Its adherents sought to "reform" rather than merely rationalize the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact -Thank to the strong ties they formed with public administrations and left-wing parties, many exponents of this trend (including Pier Luigi Cervellati, Giuseppe Campos Venuti, Edoardo Detti, Vezio De Lucia, Edoardo Salzano, Alberto Todros, and many others) became leading figures in the public debate on cities of the Seventies and early Eighties, and were responsible for many institutional decisions adopted in this period at the national as well as the local level (e.g., the land law of 1977 and the ten-year housing plan of 1978). In the Eighties and Nineties, in spite of the spread of a private conception of urban planning - the so-called "contrattata" (negotiated) urban planning - the exponents of this trend were still able to carry out programs and plans - e.g. Bologna and Naples -. that aimed at safeguarding this physical integrity of the land.