Abstract

CAMERIN, Federico. Giuseppe Campos Venuti in 20th century Italian urbanism and the “austerity” challenges for the future. Invest. Geog [online]. 2018, n.95. ISSN 2448-7279.  https://doi.org/10.14350/rig.59534.

The theme of this work is the evolution of the notions and concepts of a key figure of Italian urbanism in the period after the Second World War, Giuseppe Campos Venuti. The aim is to highlight the ideas and beliefs of the Italian urbanist, his legacy and a thought that is reflected in the analysis and evolution of the contents of the Italian urban plan and how urban and territorial development evolves in the country.

It analyzes the belief of Campos Venuti from the 1960s and the modality of studying urbanism, focusing the attention on the role that the capitalist real estate regime had played in the action of the “traditional” urban plan and the contrast with the model that Campos Venuti proposed to offer an alternative to traditional urban practice, as the auspicious policy of “austerity” that implies the so-called five “safeguards”. In the 1990s, Federico Oliva linked to the ideas of Campos Venuti, giving continuity and evolution to the way of studying urbanism: this led to the unfolding of the Italian urban plan in two instruments: the structural plan and the operational plan.

Briefly, Campos Venuti’s belief is fundamental to understand the current situation of Italian urbanism and, in general, of Italian society: nowadays the relevance and coherence of his intellectual contributions are still valid in the context of crisis that currently shakes the capitalist system of European countries.

Keywords : Capitalist real estate regime; waste; urban planning generations; urban plan; Italy.

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