Urban Planning and Environmental Dimension: The Sustainable Quarter

摘要

Our contribution aims at thinking over the subject of the environmentally sustainable quarter, placing it within the wider scientific and technical background that links the impact of the environmental dimension in contemporary town planning to the emergency of the unsolved question of urban suburbs, that is showing all its problematic nature and impossibility of postponement in the upgrading of the existing town, in the light of the more and more urging themes of environmental sustainability, that identify the precondition for a suitable intervention in the compact town. Town planning logics of these urban areas, that are quantitatively prevailing on the dimensions taken by the settlements built in Italy during the second postwar period, are strongly related to the research works of the modern movement in architecture and town planning, that assigned to the quarter a vital role in town planning and building. It is for this reason that some features are proposed to debate, that sustainable quarters should have in order to address requalification planning choices of the existing towns and/or of the reconstruction/construction from the beginning.