Campagna Urbana. La Città in Estensione nella Bassa Sabina. Ediz. Italiana e Inglese

The territory northeast of Rome, a little beyond the area where the via Salaria crosses the Tiber and sprawls along the old Roman consular road: this is residual land where in the last sixty years an improbable urban settlement has put down its roots. It is a small, discontinuous and difficult to reach city, an example of one of the many ways in which settlements have expanded and spread into the agricultural countryside and landscape. The research focuses on a morphological area between Passo Corese and Osteria Nuova and raises several general issues regarding design disciplines. It questions the suitability of knowledge-gathering processes and the possibility to identify a compositional grammar well-matched to the traits of the setting.