Abstract
To promote the transition from an “old city to a new society,” Bologna, Italy, took on a particular urban planning process for historic cities between the 1960s and 1970s. This article seeks to understand the construction of the conservation agenda of the historic center, which materialized in a social housing policy, with a solid emancipatory and anti-capitalist aspiration. Based on a literature review, the article sought to unravel the various political and technical syntheses related to the issue of heritage restoration, particularly in post-war Italy (1945) until the 1970s. Land and real estate, the nature of the safeguarding policy, and the guidelines for metropolitan planning, with the historic center being its focal point.
Keywords:
Integrated Conservation; Bologna; Social Housing in Historic Centers