ABSTRACT
In the contentious debate on good urban form and appropriate building types that gripped the Italian architectural profession during the second half of the twentieth century, a crucial issue was the identification of the driving forces behind urban transformation and their interactions. In this debate, the so-called Early Modern period was considered to be an intellectual watershed in relation to which different theories and implicit manifestos arose. They produced a wide range of perspectives through which the reality of the built environment started being systematically investigated and framed via the construction of internally coherent representations, called “types.”
