The Walls of Rome - Aurelian, Leonine and Gianicolensi - are the city's most extensive historical-archaeological monument (no less than 19 km of fortifications) included in Rome's new Master Plan. Having survived the demolitions of modernity, the Walls are the palimpsest of the Urbe's history and an extraordinary urban resource that serves as a 'backdrop' to the city's most important urban and architectural events - churches, buildings, complexes, villas, gardens, aqueducts, monuments. As such, they are a potential cultural, environmental and narrative infrastructure that could bring together in a ring system places of particular historical-artistic and landscape value and foster ecological and social functioning through reconnection to the city's vital circuits, together with new forms of promotion and sharing of a unique historical-archaeological asset. These are the key points of the book, a choral work that brings together the results of a multidisciplinary research that has brought together architects, landscape architects, archaeologists, sociologists and communication experts in a multifocal reading of the Walls aimed at interpreting their value as a potential contemporary infrastructure and proposing an active vision of the protection and enhancement of a monument "in the middle of the road".
Le Mura di Roma – Aureliane, Leonine e Gianicolensi – sono il più esteso monumento storico-archeologico della città (ben 19 km di fortificazioni) inserito nel nuovo Piano Regolatore di Roma. Sopravvissute alle demolizioni della modernità, le Mura sono il palinsesto della storia dell’Urbe e una straordinaria risorsa urbana che fa da “sfondo” ai più importanti fatti urbani e architettonici della città – chiese, edifici, complessi, ville, giardini, acquedotti, monumenti. In quanto tali, esse sono una potenziale infrastruttura culturale, ambientale e narrativa che potrebbe riunire in un sistema anulare luoghi di particolare pregio storico-artistico e paesaggistico e favorire funzionamenti ecologici e sociali attraverso la riconnessione ai circuiti vitali della città, insieme a nuove forme di promozione e condivisione di un bene storico-archeologico unico al mondo. Sono questi i punti chiave del volume, opera corale che raccoglie gli esiti di una ricerca multidisciplinare che ha riunito architetti, paesaggisti, archeologi, sociologi, esperti della comunicazione in una lettura multifocale delle Mura volta a interpretarne il valore di potenziale infrastruttura contemporanea e a proporre una visione attiva della tutela e valorizzazione di un monumento “in mezzo alla strada”.
Le Mura di Roma. Una infrastruttura culturale ed ecologica per la città contemporanea / Carpenzano, Orazio; Criconia, Alessandra. - (2024), pp. 1-360.
Le Mura di Roma. Una infrastruttura culturale ed ecologica per la città contemporanea
Orazio Carpenzano;Alessandra Criconia
2024
Abstract
The Walls of Rome - Aurelian, Leonine and Gianicolensi - are the city's most extensive historical-archaeological monument (no less than 19 km of fortifications) included in Rome's new Master Plan. Having survived the demolitions of modernity, the Walls are the palimpsest of the Urbe's history and an extraordinary urban resource that serves as a 'backdrop' to the city's most important urban and architectural events - churches, buildings, complexes, villas, gardens, aqueducts, monuments. As such, they are a potential cultural, environmental and narrative infrastructure that could bring together in a ring system places of particular historical-artistic and landscape value and foster ecological and social functioning through reconnection to the city's vital circuits, together with new forms of promotion and sharing of a unique historical-archaeological asset. These are the key points of the book, a choral work that brings together the results of a multidisciplinary research that has brought together architects, landscape architects, archaeologists, sociologists and communication experts in a multifocal reading of the Walls aimed at interpreting their value as a potential contemporary infrastructure and proposing an active vision of the protection and enhancement of a monument "in the middle of the road".I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.