Place
Quartiere Giardino
Rainbow-painted row houses and private gardens from a nineteenth-century workers' cooperative's unfinished ideal city.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Quartiere Giardino in Milan starts with an 1889 Paris gold medal awarded to a workers' housing scheme that, by then, barely resembled its original ambition: an entire utopian city planned by the SEAO cooperative in the Porta Vittoria district, with dormitories, schools and garden plots for the working poor. It follows how money troubles and two world wars whittled that dream down to a single street, now known as Via Lincoln. Listen for how the neighbors behind these garden walls kept the idea alive on their own terms.
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