The book illustrates the results of the research activity that the authors, with the contribution of researchers from the TESIS Inter-University Center, have been carrying out for more than twenty years in support of the implementation of the national plan of interventions for university student residences under Law 338/2000, and of the extraordinary plans promoted by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The discussion is based on the analysis and processing of a unique amount of data in terms of number and originality, acquired through research and support activities to the Ministerial Commissions in charge of the evaluation and selection of projects to be admitted to state co-financing, and provides a reasoned reading of the knowledge acquired, ideally retracing the implementation phases of the intervention process and focusing on the evolution of the relationship between regulation, design and implementation. The monograph is addressed to a wide audience: to planners as a guide for the development of design solutions; to administrators of university cities as an opportunity to orientate urban and building planning and redevelopment; to universities and institutions with the purpose of implementing student residences as an opportunity to increase and improve a social service; and, last but not least, to students themselves as a stimulus to improve their living conditions and understand the most appropriate way of developing study and learning.