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One year after his appointment as designer of the new General Urban Development Plan, Plinio Marconi was commissioned by the city council of Salerno to find solutions to the housing shortage caused by the recent flood of 1954. While the districts that sprang up after the natural disaster as a swift solution to the housing emergency showed a fragmented urban planning policy, the urban projects of Marconi sought to promote, an extensive variety of building types, the creation of large green areas and a close relationship with the local landscape, aiming above all to make these settlements autonomous. If they had been built with all the planned social facilities, these housing complexes could have easily recreated the social and urban conditions of the historic city districts.
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Talenti, S. (2018). Rethinking Salerno After the 1954 Flood: The Arrival of Plinio Marconi in the City. In: Amoruso, G. (eds) Putting Tradition into Practice: Heritage, Place and Design. INTBAU 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57937-5_24
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