1/ Today I'll bring you in a little walk in the "città giardino" of Bologna.
Despite borrowing the name from Howard's Garden City (probably one of the most imitated and most twisted concept in history after pizza), the città giardino bears little resemblance with the original
Despite borrowing the name from Howard's Garden City (probably one of the most imitated and most twisted concept in history after pizza), the città giardino bears little resemblance with the original
2/ For once, Italian garden cities are way more urban in location and in form, with little concession to neo-pastoralist fantasies. Most of the time it's just a appealing foreign label applied to the typical "fin-de-siècle" bourgeois low density neighborhood
3/ The prevailing typology is the "villino", a single family 2-3 stories urban villa with a modest garden on a relatively large lot. Unlike England, and 4in a more Mediterranean fashion, the garden is fenced
4/ But single family "villini" are not the only typology: small high end apartment buildings, "palazzine", are also quite common, most with small gardens, a few with spaces for shops in the ground floor. Many buildings ar in a neo-something revival style
5/ There are also a few examples of modernism, even if those are not so common in Bologna, that want through modernism as a sleepy provincial town...
6/ Since the postwar years, the area has been slowly getting denser, with "villini" being replaced by apartment buildings, even in recent years. Some better than others.
7/ Bonus pics: the area is full of painted cornices, a typical element of late 19, early 20th century eclectic architecture, reminiscent of renaissance "domus picta"
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