The book explores current characteristics of the urban built environment in view of possible
future transformations. A cross-reading analysis of existing public social housing buildings is
proposed based on the investigation of their architectural structural and energetic
characteristics. The study aims to provide an integrated approach that captures the link
between typology construction and energy demands offering a key to understanding the main
critical issues and transformation readiness. It focuses on large-scale interventions composing
public social housing stocks realized during the second half of the twentieth century. More
than other public interventions such building stocks clearly lack in meeting current housing
needs such as modern apartment architectural layout energy and structural regulations and
social mix. However due to their numerical presence strategical and widespread distribution
across urban areas and transformability these buildings can be the target for future
strategic regeneration projects. In particular the book thoroughly investigates the social
housing estate constructed in Rome (Italy) after the approval in 1964 of the first urban
economic and social housing plan.
