ABSTRACT
The Matteotti Village represents the last effort to define a new housing settlement for more than 3,000 people living in the areas surrounding Terni. Terni was one of the most important Italian steel producers. The company had been founded in 1884 as Societa degli Alti Forni, fonderie e acciaierie di Terni and from the outset it was a strategic industrial plant for military production. The architects distinguished between the set of housing units 'influenced' by the rules of Gestione Case Lavoratori(GESCAL), Management of Workers' Homes and 'economic choices', and the system of public facilities and spaces, which would have given the 'complexity and richness' of a new urban compound to Gallaratese 2. The project for Barene San Giuliano continued during the 1960s, becoming one of the key works pertinent to political criticism of the modernist approach to popular housing and urban design, and one of the most advanced urban models for the welfare state in Italy.
