The fellowship of the ring goes to town. A new urban architecture /Una nuova architettura urbana

Transforming the sub-urban peripheries in livable neighborhoods is the challenge that faces the European Union. The contribute with the support of MIUR-PRIN 2004, aims at providing architects, engineers, urbanists, public and private administrators, public and private developers, real estate agencies with the most recent experiences of transformation of problematic sub-urban areas into true livable communities according to the principles of New Urbanism. It is focused on the transformation of peripheral commercial malls into mixed-use urban neighborhoods that allow, through a higher density, both the creation of a better urban environment and a higher profit return after the intervention.