The integrated requalification of Autor's Urban Peripheries. Tools and strategies

The actions to be taken on urban Periferies, with a view to the Agenda 2030 SDGs, need new tools, starting from the identification of contemporary quality architectures within the extended field of recent construction production. The census activities are the first step to promote heritage’s knowledge and valorization and, in the long term, conservation and protection. This study, moving from the National Census of Italian Architecture of the late Twentieth Century and “Città pubblica” Census, identifies the salient points of this scientific tool and traces the development lines that can outline future scenarios in the integrated requalification of the public housing Quarters belonging to the Poetics of the large dimension with Author declination. Although these buildings, from a historical-critical point of view, are already fully included in the Cultural Heritage concept  and the Census is an evidence  still for them there is no defined technological and environmental operational strategy that adapts them to the needs and uses of contemporary society, compatibly with the "designing intentions" and with their recognized cultural value. Through the definition of technological-environmental criteria on national cases, the characteristics of the building-type are described and long-term strategies are illustrated, allowing the artefact’s transmission as evidence of Italian architectural culture’s period and taking the form of a small-scale green city concept approach.