Il quartiere come parte urbana formalmente compiuta

The essay describes the results of a scientific agreement between the IACP of Naples (Institute for Council Houses) and the Department of Architecture ??? University of Naples Federico II and also a case-study of urban renewal of an 80s district. The methodological research approach is in the assumption of the districts of the twentieth century first half - for their location, shape and characteristics - as urban parts formally defined and references for a restructuring of the urban peripheries, avoiding both a banal densification similar to the ???centre??? and a further dispersion typical of the contemporary widespread periphery. The thesis is also that the lesson of these districts could be a reference for those newer neighbourhoods that, expanding themselves in size and population, can???t represent autonomous parts and can???t be able to establish clear relationships between built and open spaces or identify subparts morphologically defined.