Aspetti dell'industrializzazione ad Aosta: il quartiere Ansaldo-Cogne

In Aosta, the decision to build a neighbourhood for the workers, employees and managers of the Ansaldo steel company followed a very specific logic. The choice of location was determined by the need to avoid any contact between the industrial and residential areas: the new neighbourhood was located in a healthy area to the west of the established city. The project was based on the identification of distinct groups of buildings for different categories of workers. Few buildings remain from the original construction programme, which was not implemented due to the crisis that hit the company, and the final layout is the result of a process that lasted about half a century and wiped out almost all of the original principles. The area has been progressively occupied by low-cost housing built by entities such as the IACP and various cooperatives, despite its proximity to the “historic centre”, maintaining its character as a working-class suburb over time.