NEW BUSINESS CENTERS FOR ITALIAN CITIES

Abstract

A sustained economic boom and an influx of rural migrants are exerting tremendous pressures on most large Italian cities. Picturesque and crowded medieval central districts cannot accommodate new population and activity without major rebuilding, but this is made impossible by historic, touristic, and political considerations. New outlying business centers are therefore being planned and constructed throughout Italy. It appears that these new centers may solve some problems but will raise many others, the most important being the competition between the new centers and the old.