The building commission and the shadow lines of modernization in Catania
Journal title ARCHIVIO STORICO PER LA SICILIA ORIENTALE
Author/s Gianluca Majeli
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2023/1-2
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 165-191 File size 228 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASSO2023-002-008
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The research analyzes the role of the Building Commission of Catania between 1958 and 1966, when the city underwent a profound and turbulent morphological transformation. Through the review of the Commission’s minutes, it emerges that for many years the municipality’s technical advisory body, composed of the political leadership and both internal and external experts, approved building permits almost unanimously, and how this unanimity faded with the discussion of the General regulatory plan which was approved in 1964, reflecting an ongoing shift in the approach to territorial planning, the preservation of historic centers, and the protection of landscape values.
Keywords: Building commission; Catania; Planning committee; Territorial history; Modernization; Post-war period.
Gianluca Majeli, La Commissione edilizia e le linee d’ombra della modernizzazione a Catania in "ARCHIVIO STORICO PER LA SICILIA ORIENTALE" 1-2/2023, pp 165-191, DOI: 10.3280/ASSO2023-002-008