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Searching for memories in the suburbs of Rome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Filippo De Pieri
Filippo De Pieri*
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Modern Italy , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , August 2010 , pp. 371 - 379
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6. Portelli, , L'ordine è già stato eseguito cit., pp. 12, 10.Google Scholar

7. The targets of Vidotto's polemic were primarily the works of Italo Insolera and Antonio Cederna: see Insolera, , Roma moderna, cit.; and Cederna, Antonio. 1965. Mirabilia urbis: Cronache romane 1957–1965. Torino: Einaudi.Google Scholar

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9. Portelli, , 2006. The work on Centocelle was preceded by a project carried out by the Circolo Gianni Bosio on the Borgo ragazzi di Don Bosco (‘Don Bosco Boys’ Town’) created by the Salesian order in the post-war period. See Portelli, Alessandro, ed. 2002. Il borgo e la borgata. I ragazzi di Don Bosco e l'altra Roma del dopoguerra. Rome: Donzelli.Google Scholar

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12. Although Stefania Ficacci's book on Tor Pignattara includes an appendix dedicated to ‘sources of memory’, the information provided does not make it possible to quantify the number of interviews conducted by the author, although the number would appear to be limited.Google Scholar

13. The areas also feature in films such as L'onorevole Angelina by Zampa, Luigi (1947) and in Elsa Morante's novel La storia (1974).Google Scholar

14. Braghin, Paolo ed. 1978. Inchiesta sulla miseria in Italia (1951–52). Turin: Einaudi.Google Scholar

15. See for example Di Biagi, Paola Elena Marchigiani, Marin, Alessandra. 2002. Trieste '900. Edilizia sociale, urbanistica, architettura. Un secolo dalla fondazione dell'Ater. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale; Raffaele, Pugliese, ed. 2005. La casa popolare in Lombardia 1903–2003, exhibition catalogue. Milan: Unicopli; Di Biagi, Paola. 2008. La città pubblica. Edilizia sociale e riqualificazione urbana a Torino. Turin: Allemandi.Google Scholar

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17. The popularity of the metaphor of the city as archipelago is witnessed by the title chosen by the writer Marco Lodoli for his ‘rough guide to Rome’: Lodoli, Marco. 2005. Isole. Turin: Einaudi. Another indication of the widespread interest in the characteristics of Rome's suburbs is represented by La città fuori le mura (‘The city beyond the walls’), a series of more than 200 articles on various outlying parts of the city commissioned from different writers by the daily paper La Repubblica, with the assistance of Lodoli, between 2001 and 2008. An initial collection of these columns appeared in book form in 2005 (Cerasa, Giuseppe. La città fuori le mura: Roma come non l'avete mai vista. ‘Biblioteca di Repubblica’. Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso); more recent columns can be read on the paper's website. http://roma.repubblica.it/speciali/cittafuorilemura (accessed 17 July 2009).Google Scholar

18. The suburbs of Rome have taken on a greater centrality on the administrative level: witness the transformation of the old circoscrizioni (constituencies) into 20 ‘Municipi’ (literally ‘town halls’), implemented in 2001. The new general regulatory plan for Rome, adopted by the city council in 2008, gives an important role to suburban districts: a series of ‘centres’, to be established throughout the urban area, are envisaged as playing a pivotal role in the transformation of local areas. Some of the studies which led up to and informed the plan – in particular a study by CRESME (Centro Ricerche Economiche Sociali di Mercato per l'Edilizia e il Territorio) entitled Identità, centralità e nuove municipalità nella metropoli romana – placed a strong emphasis on the polycentric nature of the capital, which is characterised as structured in more than 200 ‘micro-cities’. See also Bellicini, Lorenzo. 2001. Le ‘microcittà’ di Roma e il nuovo piano regolatore. Urbanistica LIII, no. 116: 198–99 (English translation pp. 280–81) and Marcelloni, Maurizio. 2003. Pensare la città contemporanea. Il nuovo piano regolatore di Roma. Rome–Bari: Laterza.Google Scholar