2023
DOI: 10.1558/jca.22264
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Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Rome

Abstract: When Rome became the capital of a unified Italian state in 1871, the city lagged behind other European capitals in contemporary architectural expression. Ancient ruins evoked a distant glory, although the area of Rome containing the Imperial Fora was covered over by a dense urban residential quarter called the Alessandrino District. The quarter was labelled a slum district by fascist propaganda, and it was demolished in the early 1930s to make way for a parade avenue, the Via dell’Impero. This article presents… Show more

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“…Over the three-and-a-half centuries of its existence, the basic plan of the district and the footprints of individual buildings remained largely unchanged; the internal layouts of houses and individual room functions, however, were transformed (Jacobsen et al 2019(Jacobsen et al /2020. Recent excavations conducted in an area previously occupied by the buildings of Via Cremona 43 and 44 have permitted a partial reconstruction of architectural changes and aspects of daily life from the middle of the nineteenth century to the 1930s (Corsetti et al 2022). Contextual evidence for the period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, has proven substantially more elusive.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the three-and-a-half centuries of its existence, the basic plan of the district and the footprints of individual buildings remained largely unchanged; the internal layouts of houses and individual room functions, however, were transformed (Jacobsen et al 2019(Jacobsen et al /2020. Recent excavations conducted in an area previously occupied by the buildings of Via Cremona 43 and 44 have permitted a partial reconstruction of architectural changes and aspects of daily life from the middle of the nineteenth century to the 1930s (Corsetti et al 2022). Contextual evidence for the period between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, has proven substantially more elusive.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%