Le politiche per la grande viabilità nell'Italia della Prima repubblica : storia di una pianificazione mancata

The country was moved by a lively debate on the Highway routes, which were to hold together international guidelines and local expectations. The history of Italian modernization is also one of the lack of integration between the different ways of communication and between territorial and industrial planning. This contribution outlines the main legislative and economic steps since the Second World War to the 1990s, trying to understand the reasons for an unfinished infrastructure modernization. [Publishers' text].