Brief description

This volume offers  a suggestive itinerary in search of single family residential archictecture in Cagliari during the first forty years of  the twentieth century. In this city,  situated between Europe  and Africa, the itinerary reveals the fascination with a residential typology still strongly tied to the romantic concepts of the "garden city". At the beginning of  the  twentieth century, Cagliari seems to have been characterized by an acceptable architectural "quality". Like other Italian cities, amid strong social tensions  and great change in the economic-productive sectors, the city sought to reorganize its urban functions, to identify guidelines for its long term growt and expansion, and to construct numerous architectural complexes that would give a new face to the city.