Configuration and transformations of the urban landscape in Rome

The contribution addresses the issue of the development and transformation of the urban landscape of the city of Rome through the identification of key historical moments. This will allow to understand the different phases that led to the current image, through the collection of maps and views and historic photographs. The research starts from these documents, or the image of them that has been handed down over time, with the objective of showing the evolution of the primitive nucleus of the city, the consolidation of its dominant structure, and following the subsequent transformations of the city, through a chronological sequence. The cartographic analysis, the historical and sociopolitical analysis, and the accompanying literature have led to the identification of seven key moments that have influenced the development of the urban landscape of the city of Rome. These are presented as Summary Maps –and for some of them there are additional explanatory schemes of the fundamental phases of the urban and landscape transformations.