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Nel panorama dell'edilizia industriale del Lazio spiccano alcuni insediamenti significativi per la dipendenza dall'acqua come elemento fondamentale nel ciclo produttivo. In particolare sono numerosi, in precisi contesti laziali, gli stabilimenti per la produzione sia della carta sia delle fibre tessili artificiali, cioè quegli insediamenti produttivi che, per gli aspetti tipologici e costruttivi ma soprattutto per il mutato rapporto con gli insediamenti urbani di riferimento, possono assumere nuove valenze se interpretati come nuovi nodi di una rete di produzione di beni o di servizi.Una lettura puntuale dell’insieme di tali stabilimenti in abbandono nel rapporto stabilito con l’ambito naturale delle “linee d’acqua” e con quello artificiale dei tessuti urbani di Isola del Liri e Tivoli, può permettere di evidenziare le potenzialità insite in quei “residui” sia in relazione alla componente dello spazio costruito che alla riqualificazione dell’ambiente naturale.

Introduction. The Floreşti district, erected on the agricultural fields of the village with the same name, is one of the largest house building projects after 1989. Built during a real-estates "boom ", the district developed as a series of housing estates unintegrated into a coherent urban plan. Aims and Methodology. Using the semi-structured interview, the questionnaire and observation, this research aims at showing the characteristics of habitation in the Floreşti district and highlighting the mobility flows between Cluj-Napoca and Floreşti, both as a residence change motivation and as daily and weekly inhabitant routes. Results. The residing population is highly homogeneous regarding age and family structure, youngfamilies with children being dominant. Most of them previously resided in one of the districts built during communism, choosing Floreşti because the apartment prices are lower than in Cluj-Napoca. Conclusions. There is a strong contrast between an ideal and controllable indoors (the apartment) and an ugly and problematic outdoors (the district space). There is a back track of the activities and interactions related to habitation inside the apartment space, while the outdoors of Floreşti are substituted by the public spaces and urban facilities of Cluj-Napoca. The appartment as a property becomes central, in the detriment of a relation with the living space that exceeds the immediate boundaries of private property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. The Floreşti district, erected on the agricultural fields of the village with the same name, is one of the largest house building projects after 1989. Built during a real-estates "boom", the district developed as a series of housing estates unintegrated into a coherent urban plan. Aims and Methodology. Using the semi-structured interview, the questionnaire and observation, this research aims at showing the characteristics of habitation in the Floreşti district and highlighting the mobility flows between Cluj-Napoca and Floreşti, both as a residence change motivation and as daily and weekly inhabitant routes. Results. The residing population is highly homogeneous regarding age and family structure, young families with children being dominant. Most of them previously resided in one of the districts built during communism, choosing Floreşti because the apartment prices are lower than in Cluj-Napoca. Conclusions. There is a strong contrast between an ideal and controllable indoors (the apartment) and an ugly and problematic outdoors (the district space). There is a back track of the activities and interactions related to habitation inside the apartment space, while the outdoors of Floreşti are substituted by the public spaces and urban facilities of Cluj-Napoca. The appartment as a property becomes central, in the detriment of a relation with the living space that exceeds the immediate boundaries of private property. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]