This article traces the last fifteen years since the earthquake that hit the city of L’Aquila and, through a focus on the housing stock, explores the ongoing processesnd the legacy of the post-disaster.Pulverization, new ephemeral centralities, overproduction, abandonment and new fragilities are the result of the inability to address old and new territorial imbalances, making L’Aquila an exceptional but exemplary case of the Italian context.