Rome Works: An Architect Explores the World's Most Resilient City - Couverture souple

Rankin, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692559418 ISBN 13 : 9780692559413

Editeur : Peruzzi Press, 2015

Synopsis

Although Rome has triggered countless books, Rome Works is the first to view the city through the lens of environmental sustainability. Presenting seven case studies in sustainability from across a range of historical periods, it explores in detail Rome’s impressive history of low-impact urban growth.Tom Rankin draws on his 20 years of experience as a professor and practitioner of architecture in Rome to examine this tradition from several vantage points. He considers the fabric of the built infrastructure, urban mobility and the ways that Romans have dealt with the challenges posed by transportation, energy use, water supply and waste removal. He also explores the roles that political and economic forces and, most importantly, civic values, have played in shaping Rome’s development. The seven studies are less finished models of sustainability, the author writes, than complex and messy but instructive laboratories of experimentation and adjustment over time.As he writes about the systems that allowed Rome to function in the past and which continue to do so today, Rankin also weaves in stories of his own passionate but at times exasperated relationship with the Eternal City.Rome Works posits that development in Rome stands at a fork in the road. It can proceed along its current, growth-based trajectory, inspired by the American development model, or it can take an historically-grounded, authentically Roman path toward a greener economy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Rankin is an American architect living in Rome, where he teaches ecological urbanism at the at Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and for various American study-abroad programs.  Prior to moving to Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship, he received his Master's in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor's in Architecture at Princeton University. His blog sustainablerome.net was chosen Italy's Best City Blog by Guardian Cities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peruzzi Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692559418
• ISBN 13: 9780692559413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
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