The architectural and urban history of contemporary Naples could be started in 1884, after a dreadful cholera epidemic which evidenced the urgency of a more incisive intervention on the historical urban grids with massive land reclamations, demolitions of entire unhealthy areas to build new social housing, to plan new districts of expansion and to improve infrastructures. The response that came from the Government was extremely rapid and on November 15th, 1885, the "Law for the cleansing of the city of Naples" was enacted. Three years later, in 1888, the "Code of Hygiene and Public Health" was adopted and the “Società pel Risanamento di Napoli” was established, that was, a consortium of banks, real estate companies and construction companies, which was unrelated to the city and mostly from northern Italy. Its main tasks were to set out the actions of urban "gutting", to pursue the "reclamation of health and hygiene" of the area between the coast and the southern edge of the old city, to make modern sewerage and drinking water systems, to improve the infrastructure and public utilities, to define new neighborhoods for expansion, including that of Posillipo, to form new middle-class neighborhoods and, above all, to reorganize the road network, the backbone of which would have been Corso Umberto I. The design of reference was the plan drawn up on October 1884 by the engineers Gaetano Bruno and Adolfo Giambarba. The works started on June 15th, 1889 and they should had continued with a cobweb of branching paths and streets, which should also had ensured the ventilation of the neighborhoods, thanks to careful studies of the prevailing winds to favor better living conditions. On the basis of unpublished documents and drawings, the essay is the critical reading of the cultural and architectonical events that accompanied and followed these events. The focal topic is the analysis of the variety of building types for low class because it was one of the major differences from the master plan of Paris by Haussmann to which the Neapolitan master plan has been always compared.
Il “Risanamento” di Napoli. Dal progetto urbano alla scala architettonica
manzo elena
2018
Abstract
The architectural and urban history of contemporary Naples could be started in 1884, after a dreadful cholera epidemic which evidenced the urgency of a more incisive intervention on the historical urban grids with massive land reclamations, demolitions of entire unhealthy areas to build new social housing, to plan new districts of expansion and to improve infrastructures. The response that came from the Government was extremely rapid and on November 15th, 1885, the "Law for the cleansing of the city of Naples" was enacted. Three years later, in 1888, the "Code of Hygiene and Public Health" was adopted and the “Società pel Risanamento di Napoli” was established, that was, a consortium of banks, real estate companies and construction companies, which was unrelated to the city and mostly from northern Italy. Its main tasks were to set out the actions of urban "gutting", to pursue the "reclamation of health and hygiene" of the area between the coast and the southern edge of the old city, to make modern sewerage and drinking water systems, to improve the infrastructure and public utilities, to define new neighborhoods for expansion, including that of Posillipo, to form new middle-class neighborhoods and, above all, to reorganize the road network, the backbone of which would have been Corso Umberto I. The design of reference was the plan drawn up on October 1884 by the engineers Gaetano Bruno and Adolfo Giambarba. The works started on June 15th, 1889 and they should had continued with a cobweb of branching paths and streets, which should also had ensured the ventilation of the neighborhoods, thanks to careful studies of the prevailing winds to favor better living conditions. On the basis of unpublished documents and drawings, the essay is the critical reading of the cultural and architectonical events that accompanied and followed these events. The focal topic is the analysis of the variety of building types for low class because it was one of the major differences from the master plan of Paris by Haussmann to which the Neapolitan master plan has been always compared.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
