2. Before Italy’s unification
• Pius IX first introduced the railways to
Rome
• The first stretch, Rome-Frascati, was
inaugurated in 1856, followed by
Rome-Civitavecchia in1867
• A central railway station was built in
the Esquilino area
• Termini Station, opened in 1867, and
the creation of via Nazionale, started
the city’s first modern development
3. The 1870s
• Rome was conquered with the
breach of Porta Pia in 1870
• The city still showed the medieval
appearance Sisto V had given it
• The new government wanted to
transform the city into the future
capital of the kingdom.
• Space was needed to build new
districts
4. Rome Capital of Italy
• The first urban development took place in
the Northeast of the city
•A district at the foot of the Vatican was
built: Prati, so named since the Middle Ages
for its fertile fields
• Prati was planned in such a way that there
was no open view of St. Peter’s dome, to
symbolize the tension between the
kingdom of Italy and the Vatican
• Other works were carried out
• the embankment of the Tiber
• the expansion of the sewer system and the
water system
• the construction of ministries headquarters
5. Post World War I
•After World War I another important urban
development was planned
•The Southern areas should have been connected to
Ostia by a never built navigable canal, to give the city a
commercial port
• Houses for harbour workers should also have been
built
• With the Fascist Régime urban plans changed
•The construction style changed too
• In the first years of 20th century they wanted to build
cottages
• In the fascist period they built bigger and taller blocks
of flats
6. Fascist period
•During Mussolini's
dictatorship the city center
was renovated
•The reason was strictly
symbolic
• Mussolini wanted to isolate
the ancient monuments and
make them a “tower over the
necessary solitude”
•The same thing had already
been done in Paris and in
other European cities
7. Fascist period
• Following this idea the most important work was the creation of Via della Conciliazione
• This roads allowed people to see St Peter’s from a very big distance
• It cancelled the studies upon perspective made by Bernini
• The artist wanted people to see St Peter's square after walking across a tangle of small streets
• The street was too large so two lines of obelisks, the “Lanternischi”, were positioned along the way
8. Fascist period
• The other important change was in
Piazza Venezia and around the
Roman Forum
• Crumbling houses were demolished
to permit the view of ancient ruins
• Via dell'Impero (now Via dei Fori
Imperiali), connecting the Coliseum
to Piazza Venezia was created
9. EUR
• The construction of the E42
area began under the
Fascist Régime
• The district was built for the
Universal Exposition of 1942
• Today this area is called EUR
and it's famous for its
modern architecture
10. •The Universal Exposition was
called off due to the beginning of
World War II
• The area was finished after the
end of World War II
•The fascist project wanted to
connect the new district to
Termini Station by an
underground line
•In the 30s they began to build the
first underground line in Rome
11. EUR
• EUR expanded for the 1960 Olympics
• At present EUR is the city’s financial center and one of the biggest in Italy
• It houses many major bank headquarters and that of the Italian Post
Office
• It's also home to many public and private buildings and offices
12. Foro Italico
• It’s a sports complex in the Northern
area of the city built by Mussolini
between 1927 and 1933
• To build the Forum many houses
were demolished and the inhabitants
were forced to move to the suburbs
• During the fascist period it was
known as Mussolini’s Forum
• Sports were one of the most
important features of fascist
propaganda
• The myth of young fit Italians was in
the party's political guidelines
13. Foro Italico
• Foro Italico houses the Olympic Stadium, the
Marbles Stadium, Tennis Courts and an
Olympic Swimming pool
• The entrance is a long boulevard paved with a
black and white mosaic and a marble obelisk
known as Stele Mussolini.
• It is decorated with statues representing
different sports
• Many important international sporting events
have been and still are held in the Foro Italico
• 1960 Olympics
• 1990 FIFA World Cup
• 2009 World Swimming Championship
• Since 1949 it has hosted the International
Tennis Tournament of Italy
14. Garbatella
• Garbatella is one of the most popular
neighbourhoods in Rome
• It is close to the city centre in an area
previously occupied by fields
• Its construction started in the 1920s
• It was planned on the basis of English
Garden Cities
• It was built to host workmen and evicted
people
• Houses have a repetitive structure and often
a small plot
• The area also features public gardens, a
central square as well as schools, markets
and churches
15. Garbatella
• Garbatella is home to one of
the best-known comedy
theatres, Teatro Ambra
• The district rose to nationwide
fame in 2006 when it was
chosen as the set of a famous
Italian TV Series “The Cesaroni”
• This led to a boost in the area
real estate market
16. Present time
• After World War II the city saw a great urban expansion with the building of many new districts
• The targated areas were
• Tuscolana, Casilina, the areas near the Aniene river, Monte Mario
• Public transport also developed
• In 1955 the underground B line was opened
• In the 1980s the construction of the A underground line connected the new districts to the Vatican
• In the 2000s the most important new projects are: new underground lines, the Fuksas Cloud and
the Aquarium
