Figure 1
‘Bologna la Rossa’ – the streets around the centre of Bologna and its university (Photographs by Anna Wakeford Holder, February 2023).
Figure 2
Bologna as seen from the Torre degli Asinelli, 2015. (Courtesy of Shoestring: CC BY-SA 4.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bologna_the_red,_seen_from_the_top_of_the_Tower,_Bologna,_Italy.JPG).
Figure 3
Scenes of street life in the city centre (Courtesy of Paolo Monti: CC BY-SA 4.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Bologna,_1969)_-_BEIC_6330959.jpg).
Figure 4
Scenes of street life in the city centre (Courtesy of Paolo Monti: CC BY-SA 4.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Bologna,_1969)_-_BEIC_6330959.jpg).
Figure 5
Small-scale housing with workshops and shop-units below in central Bologna: the preservation and renovation of many of these buildings is the result of the PEEP Centro Storico plan of the 1960s (Photographs by Anna Wakeford Holder, February 2023).
Figure 6
Inauguration of the exhibition on the survey campaign of the historic center of the municipality of Bologna, at Palazzo D’Accursio, 1970 (Courtesy of Paolo Monti: CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
Figure 7
Inauguration of the exhibition on the survey campaign of the historic center of the municipality of Bologna, at Palazzo D’Accursio, 1970 (Courtesy of Paolo Monti: CC BY-SA 4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
Figure 8
PEEP Fossolo (1970–71) is an example of one of the five neighbourhoods on Bologna’s then periphery, financed through the PEEP plan, and constructed and managed by building and housing cooperatives. System-built concrete-framed housing in towers and linear blocks is set around a landscaped park and an elementary school. Future residents were involved in decision-making about the plan form of apartments, and also influenced the inclusion of shared spaces in the towers for a library, gymnasium, and meeting room/entertainment space (Photographs by Anna Wakeford Holder, February 2023).
Figure 9
PEEP Fossolo, view from Viale Felsina 27, construction Fortepan, Bologna 1972 (Courtesy of Fülöp Imre: CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
Figure 10
Page spread from La Cooperazione di Abitazione, Una Realta da Conoscere. Bologna, 1970 – a publication promoting and celebrating the achievements of the building cooperatives (Courtesy of Fondazione Barberini).
Figure 11
The buildings on via Salgari, Pilastro, 1977 (Courtesy of MGiordani: CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
Figure 12
Linear housing block ‘il Virgolone’ (1974–76) in Pilastro, on the periphery of Bologna (Photographs by Anna Wakeford Holder and Kim Trogal, February 2023).
Figure 13
Biblioteca Luigi Spina, the public library of Pilastro, has inhabited this former farmhouse since 1974. It was renamed in 2003 after Luigi Spina, the first president of the residents’ organisation, Comitato Inquilini del Pilastro. The library has been further renovated and expanded in recent years, and one facade is now decorated with a large image of Spina (Photograph by Kim Trogal, February 2023).