ABSTRACT
The discussion on university planning re-emerged powerfully around 1976–1977, when a novel outburst of social unrest and student protest shed new light on the very unstable social situation across the country. The idea of the university was being reshaped by growing supranational bodies, culminating in the Bologna Process of the early 2000s for a European higher education system that finally established the three-tier degree system proposed and rejected in 1960s’ Italy. The university is no longer like that at all; perhaps, it is only a poor, modest service that each municipality will offer its inhabitants through the evening use of a computer in the ‘common hall’ of an elementary school. With the metropolitan master plan reduced to a drawn memoir to be hung on the walls of the university’s planning office, the design of the academic settlement was turned into a conventional set of detached blocks around a lawn.
