Chapter One - Placemaking

Summary

This book is about placemaking, a theme increasingly connecting the archaeological discipline with anthropology, urban planning, and the visual arts. From the very first pages, it is good to underscore how this book deals with placemaking from a strictly anthropological, architectural, and archaeological perspective, emphasising the relationship that has been created between historical monuments, their architecture, the urban planning of the Third Rome, and the ideological trends that are recorded between the post-unification period (1870–1922) and that of the fascist regime (1922–45). This clarification is necessary to prepare the reader for the theoretical context of this introduction, as well as to encourage those who are interested in broadening their knowledge of placemaking from the philosophical standpoint, with the heated debates that followed in the same decades.