Public housing for the middle classes: contributions to the debate on housing for white collar workers in the post-war years
Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Gaia Caramellino
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/64
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 98-105 File size 652 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2013-064016
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Although history has frequently identified subsidised housing with economical popular housing, this paper reconsiders the role played by some public sector actors in the construction of housing for white collar workers in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. The paper attempts a preliminary and brief account of the work of Incis (Istituto Nazionale per la Casa degli Impiegati dello Stato - national housing institute for state office workers) in Italy in the post-war period. It focuses in particular on the contribution of this institution to collective imagery, symbols and housing models - ranging from the urban scale to domestic interiors - and to the places where those models were formulated and transmitted, the result of a meeting of institutional programmes, professional cultures and the housing aspirations of public sector office workers.
Keywords: Incis; white collar class; public sector residential building
Gaia Caramellino, Edilizia pubblica per i ceti medi: contributi al dibattito sulle case per gli impiegati nel secondo dopoguerra in "TERRITORIO" 64/2013, pp 98-105, DOI: 10.3280/TR2013-064016