Rome - A City for Life: Extra-Touristic City Topography and Urban Stereotypes

Golo Maurer

Rome is – perhaps alongside Paris – the European metropolis of urban stereotypes, from individual places and monuments to neighborhoods and tours, food and drink, ways of life, etc. This stereotyping is the result of an almost two-hundred-year-old tradition of hyper tourism, an imagination-reproduction machine of gigantic proportions that threatens to consume and exhaust its imaginative fuel, namely the city of Rome itself. The project deals with questions of the coexistence of historical and modern urbanity, the creation of the urban myths and their destruction, as well as the reaction of urban texture to such developments.