Global Rome

Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Clough Isabella Marinaro, Bjørn Thomassen, ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO, BJORN THOMASSEN

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780253012951
• eBook ISBN: 9780253013019
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Into the City: The Changing Faces of Rome / Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bjørn Thomassen
• Part I. Rome: The Local and the Global City
• Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places
• Part III. Rome and Its Fractured Modernities
• Part IV. The Informal City
• Contributors
• Index