This choice is due to the regions current impetus for expansion by means of major projects that seek to improve ongoing and future urban development. It is worth recalling that in the aftermath of the First World War, Geneva was the seat of the League of Nations, forerunner of the UN, laying the foundations of its future international and cosmopolitan aspirations. In the 1960s, the Canton experienced a period of rapid population growth, accompanied by significant physical expansion. In these years Geneva was a pioneer in planning policy, far in advance of the rest of Switzerland, with interventions that included the creation of a suburban belt of'satellite towns'. Some of these, acclaimed for their architectural quality, can be regarded as a kind of testing ground for collective housing: this is the case of Meyrin, Onex and Aïre, Le Lignon, not to mention the expansion of Carouge with the Tours project. Between 1955 and 1978,100,000 homes were built, 33,000 will be with the hel