Interpreting the urban transformation of the historical city. The Garbatella district in Rome, Italy and the Lazdynai district in Vilnius, Lithuania

The study on Garbatella district in Rome and Lazdynai district in Vilnius, Lithuania, aims at documenting three thematic aspects of the transformation dynamics on going: analysis of archival textual and iconographic documents; communication of the current material aspect; representation of the immaterial dimension generated on the one end by socio-cultural transformations, on the other by the media system that has represented them in different ways (from cinema, to television, to social networks).