Culture-Led Regeneration in Rome: From the Factory City to the Knowledge City

Anna Laura Palazzo

doi:10.1515/ipcj-2017-0002

Authors

Anna Laura Palazzo Department of Architecture, “Roma Tre” University of Rome; Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi, 10-00153Roma, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1515/ipcj-2017-0002

Keywords:

Culture-led regeneration, urban planning, urban design, urban governance, Tiber River

Abstract

In the early 1990s, the notion of culture-led regeneration entered the urban agenda of several European cities confronted with drastic economic changes due to losses in their industrial base. This paper critically addresses a major case in the City of Rome, indeed less affected by these phenomena. In here, the densely populated working-class districts of Ostiense and Testaccio along the Tiber River just outside the City Centre have become part for some years now of a culture-led regeneration program conveying a brand new idea of “Knowledge City” deemed able to supplant the previous image of the “Factory City.”

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