In the city of Andria – southern Italy, during the last few decades, people belonging to lower classes have moved from poor houses in the historic center to newly built single-family houses spread in the agricultural belt surrounding the city. Each new building occupies the entire surface of the property and the only architectural facade is the one facing the street: the other 3 sides of the building have been left blind, windowless, waiting for the owner of the adjacent plot to build “in adherence” without gaps. In this city, within a hundred meters on foot, you pass from a dense urban fabric without plazas or green areas to an abandoned countryside scattered with small agglomerations constituted by the basic elements of the city: the road and the buildings along it.
