Machine generated contents note: 1. The nineteeth-century Romantic roots of ambiente
The birth of Milano borgbese
The roots of the architectural concept of ambiente
Camillo Boito's ideas on environmental unity
The discourse on the historic city: from Camillo Sitte to Gustavo Giovannoni's ambiente dei monumenti
The idea of ambiente in Luca Beltrami's projects for Milan's monuments
2. Novecento and ambiente
Milan modern metropolis
City and anti-individualism
Environmental quality around Sant'Ambrogio, 1922-36
Filatura Cascami Seta building by Piero Portaluppi
Universita Cattolica: entrance and office building by Giovanni Muzio
3. What is missing?
The postwar city: a new culture and bourgeois ethos
Ernesto Rogers' quest
Environmental quality in the postwar construction of the area around the Racchetta and San Nazaro, 1943-68
Asnago Vender's block for Ferdinando Zanoletti
Luigi Caccia Dominioni's block for Cartiere Binda
4. Whatever happened to ambiente?
The decline of bourgeois energy
Against ambiente
Coda.