Le Piagge district: an example of Italian best-practices suburban area refurbishment program.

The Piagge district is located in the western suburbs of Florence, in the area between Via Pistoiese, the river Arno, the old cemetery of Peretola and the municipal border with Campi Bisenzio, comprising much of the land of the eliminated municipality of Brozzi. The first building expansion project was managed by the Florentine town plan in 1962, which envisaged a model living area for approximately 14,000 residents, which mainly involved the transformation of the old villages of Peretola, Brozzi, Quaracchi and Petriolo, which had been abandoned and where the living conditions were extremely poor.