Family Houses in Transition: Fieldwork Notes and Planning Explorations from Central-Northern Italy

The text describes the most relevant evolutionary trends of the single-family housing stock in central-northern Italy, in terms of real-estate values, demography, and building transformations. It also outlines a series of strategies for reconfiguring such houses and for selectively increasing the population density of existing estates in the ‘città diffusa‘, tackling problems also found in suburbia in other countries.