Through Time and the City : Notes on Rome (Paperback)

Introduction ? The Messy Urban Ecology of Rome. Part 1: Climate and Geography 1. Reconciliations in the Floodplain: what the Tiber River brings Part 2: Foundational Structures 2. Infrastructure Building Form: gravity, water and access 3. The Projective Urban Act: building Rome’s possible futures Part 3: Umbrella Spaces 4. Fragile Urbanism and Strong Rituals: the Via Papalis in the contemporary city 5. At Urban Extremes: From Basilicas to airports Part 4: Umbrella Spaces and the Functioning Surface 6. Systems of Distribution: goods, waste and transport Part 5. Keystone Structures 7. When an Object Generates Space: the tomb of St Peter 8. How a Site Transforms a Region: the emergent ecologies of il Colosseo Part 6. Urban Indicators, Geology and Subsurface Structure 9. Confronting History: metropolitana di Roma. Epilogue: experiments in cartography