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Item Number: 118305
Title: Städtebau für Mussolini : Auf der Suche nach der neuen Stadt im faschistischen Italien
Author: Bodenschatz, Harald (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783869221861
Description: Berlin: DOM, 2011. 30cm., hardcover, 519pp., ca. 200 illus. Summary: The book Urban Design under Mussolini is the product of several years of research in a project of the Berlin University of Technology. Drawing extensively on Italian sources, it not only provides a systematic overview of urban planning under the fascist regime, but takes a fresh approach to the subject, offering new, unexpected angles. Its numerous illustrations include many unfamiliar views. Since Rome was the centre of planning activity in the Mussolini era, one major focus of the book is on urban planning issues and projects in and around the Eternal City and the attempts made to form the capital of fascist Italy into a NEW ROME rivalling the power and glory of ancient and papal Rome. The book’s second focus is on the new cities built by the fascists as part of the massive project of reclaiming the Pontine Marshes southeast of Rome. Intended to demonstrate an allegedly efficient settlement policy within Italy, it was much applauded internationally. Next in the book is a brief overview of important urban planning projects in other Italian cities as well as the new towns. The geographic focus cannot be limited to the Italian peninsula alone, however, since that would mean denying the Janus-faced character of urban planning under Mussolini. While urban design in Italy itself – apart from the areas close to the country’s northern border, such as Bolzano – was intended to boost support for the regime, in the Italian colonies, especially in Africa, urban planning policies served to assert, consolidate, and demonstrate the regime’s absolute power. The efforts undertaken by planners at this time to establish urban design both institutionally and legally as well as at universities are also discussed in detail. (Schriften des Architekturmuseums der Technischen Universität Berlin, 4)
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