The Implementation of 167/62 Law by the Red Councils: A Comparative Analysis (1970s and 1980s)
Journal title STORIA URBANA
Author/s Luciano Villani
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/182
Language Italian Pages 28 P. 29-56 File size 414 KB
DOI 10.3280/SU2025-182003
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The article takes a comparative approach to the experiences of implementing 167 Law in several large Italian cities governed by leftwing councils in the 1970s and 1980s: Turin, Rome, Milan, and Naples. These administrations were committed to benefit from the law’s most advanced mechanisms, drawing on the reformist ideas in the field of urban planning that had been successfully tested in the “red” city of Bologna. The comparison aims to identify the factors that determined the prevailing trends in each city, highlighting the conditions or difficulties encountered in the reformist application of the measure and the different choices made by the administrations to address them. The outcomes of the policies adopted were inevitably different. The article intertwines administrative history and urban policy analysis, questioning the link between the use of the law and political guidelines in the final notes.
Keywords: Red Councils, Italian Communist Party, Law 167, Urban Policies, Italian Cities, 1970s, 1980s.
Luciano Villani, I Peep e le giunte rosse negli anni ’70 e ’80: un’analisi comparativa in "STORIA URBANA " 182/2025, pp 29-56, DOI: 10.3280/SU2025-182003