Il tracollo dell'urbanistica italiana,

摘要

'The collapse of Italian planning': the title of Leonardo Benevolo's last book, dedicated to the history of Italian planning after World War II (WWII) and to a discussion of its present and future perspectives, cannot be said to be overtly optimistic. Italy's best known and most translated architectural and urban historian, now well in his eighties (he was born in 1923), continues to regularly write books for Laterza, the publishing house he has been collaborating with for more than half a century. His publications have, in recent times, taken the form of pamphlets observing the recent transformations of Italy's territory from an increasingly pessimistic stance.