Characteristics of the Italian Model

Abstract

There is no doubt that the Italian contribution to the debate as outlined in Part II was meagre and almost insignificant to the point of making us imagine two separate worlds, which did not feel the need for dialogue and discussion. According to widespread opinion in international planning, the Italian case was a variant – and not a particularly significant one – of a presumed Mediterranean model that was still too conditioned by traditional problems of physical planning generally handled with over-simplified techniques and excessively rigid solutions.