Post-war Italian collective dwellings: Naples, Rome, Milan

e paper is focused on post-war Italian collective dwellings. e goal is to in- vestigate the private architectures realized in Italy in this period, with particular attention to some the Neapolitan architectures compared with Roman and Mil- anese architectures. While for the public dwellings the critics is almost compact in identifying it excellence, as regards private housing, its attitude could be described as embar- rassed, preferring, as it were, to turn a blind eye to the work carried out in those years. However, the building with “apartments one on top of the other” of dif- ferent sizes was the task given to the architects in the boom years (1958-1963) as well as that of the maximum exploitation of land for speculative purposes. It has been shown that the model of urban growth in Italy in the 1950s was one of “concentration spontaneity”, devoid in most cases of any level of planning [Ferra- cuti, Marcelloni, 1983], and the buildings in Milan, as well as those in Naples or Rome, were planning solutions to similar demands.