Title & Author:

Rome the centre(s) elsewhere : a Berlage Institute project / [editors, Pier Vittorio Aureli and others].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Pub., ©2010.

Description:

135 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
Statement of responsibility from colophon.
" ... based on a Berlage Institute second-year, yearlong postgraduate design research studio, entitled Rome : the centre(s) elsewhere, which took place during the 2008-2009 academic year. This research project is part of the Capital Cities Research Program, led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara from 2004 to 2009"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction to the project / Pier Vittorio Aureli, Gabriele Mastrigli, Martino Tattara -- Prologue -- A reading of Rome through its streets : Roman consular roads ; Renaissance streets ; The basilicas's system ; The unitarian boulevard ; The fascist imperial road ; The postwar asse attrezzato ; The settlements forms of contemporary Rome ; The 2008 masterplan and the rhetoric of centralities -- The construction of the subject: the worker beyond the working class -- Politics at work / Mario Tronti -- A strategic plan for Rome : Conjecture: consular roads ; Conjecture: arch of volcanoes ; A large-scale common space: the ladder principle ; Ladder sequences ; Mobility system: public transport as welfare project ; Six consular paradigms ; Railway ring, project by Suchada Kasemsap ; Via Tiburtina, project by Wei Wang ; Via Casilina, project by Guillermo Delgado Castaneda ; Via Ostiense, project by Ioanna Volaki ; Via Salaria, project by Suchada Kasemsap ; Via Appia, project by Jiong Wu ; Via Cassia, project by Maria S. Giudici -- The project of the city: working hypotheses / Pier Vittorio Aureli, Gabriele Mastrigli, Martino Tattara.

Summary:

Presents a visual essay on Rome's roads, infrastructure, and landscape.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788857205229 (pbk.)
8857205223 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Italy Rome.
City planning Italy Rome History.
Infrastructure (Economics) Italy Rome.
City planning Italy Rome Case studies.
City planning Italy Rome History Case studies.
City planning
Infrastructure (Economics)
Städtebau.
Stadtentwicklung.
Stadsplanering Italien Rom.
Stadsplanering Italien Rom Historia.
Infrastruktur Italien Rom.
City planning Rome (Italy)
City planning Rome (Italy) History.
Infrastructure (Economics) Rome (Italy)
City planning Rome (Italy) Case studies.
City planning Rome (Italy) History Case studies.
Italy Rome
Rom.

Form/genre:

Case studies
History
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Aureli, Pier Vittorio.
Berlage Instituut.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273105
Call No.: BIB 206568
Status: Available