Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City
ISBN-10
0253013011
ISBN-13
9780253013019
Category
Social Science
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2014-06-06
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Authors
Bjørn Thomassen, Clough Isabella Marinaro

Description

Delving into topics from immigration to sustainability, this is “an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome” (H-Italy). Is twenty-first-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe’s core or periphery? This volume examines the “real city” beyond Rome’s historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements. The contributors engage with themes of contemporary urban studies—the global city, the self-made city, alternative modernities, capital cities and nations, urban change from below, and sustainability. Global Rome serves as a provocative introduction to the Eternal City and makes an original contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship.

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