Abandoned buildings, degraded neighbourhoods, places designed without taking into consideration those who will inhabit them: the survival of the city today depends on the ability to reinterpret and reinvent the use of space by bringing together different interests and opportunities. The contemporary city is transformed, day by day, redrawing its hierarchies and priorities, influenced by cultural and economic changes and their speed, it is increasingly distracted from the needs of those who should be the protagonists and promoters of this change. The text aims to open up a reflection on living by addressing one of the most urgent issues concerning the modern contemporary city, namely the quality of the enormous building heritage made up of housing districts from the last thirty years of the last century that make up a significant part of our cities.