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Master plans and the expansion of Rome 1870-2000
Catalog List of Maps and Images on Exhibit
(Note: A full textual description of each exhibition image and its historical/visual significance, alongside several black and white reproductions of the maps, is available only in the printed copy of the catalog through the Studium Urbis. To inquire about the procurement of exhibition catalogs, please contact Allan Ceen.)
Cat.1
1744 Andamento del Corso del Tevere
Title: Andamento del Corso del Tevere, e sue adiacenze per il tratto della Citta` di Roma, e Profilo di livellazione, e Sezioni che comincia dal Porto di Ripetta fino al Porto di Ripa grande per esaminare se si possa render navigabile questo Fiume fra i sud.i Porti fatto d'ordine di N.S. PAPA BENEDETTO XIV. felicemente regnante nel mese di Xbre~ 1744
Published in 1861 by: Reverenda Camera Apostolica, Roma
Etching, cm. 62 x 41.5, Private Collection
Cat.2
1873 Progetto per il Tevere (Atlante)
Title: ATTI DELLA
COMMISSIONE istituita con Decreto del Ministro dei Lavori Pubblici 1( Gennaio 1871 per STUDIARE E
PROPORRE I MEZZI DI RENDERE LE PIENE DEL TEVERE INNOCUE ALLA CITTà DI ROMA
Published by: Stab. Lit. Ach. Paris, Roma
Lithograph, cm 77 x 50 (Album size; plus map foldouts of
various size)
Private CollectionI. Pianta Topografica di Roma coll'indicazione
dell'Alluvione del Decembre 1870 redatta dall' Ing.re Giuseppe Partini (cat.no.3)
II. Pianta del Fiume
Tevere: influenti e bacini. Scale 1:259,200; Cm.90 x 63
III. Pianta del Tevere dai Sassi di S.Giuliano al
Mare, Scale 1:20:000; Cm. 193 x 76
IIII. Pianta del Tevere dall'ingresso in Roma al Ponte della Ferrovia
con le linee della sistemazione delle Sponde e dell'Alveo, Scale: 1:2000; Cm. 228 x 76 (Cat.no.
4)
V.Profilo longitudinale delle Ripe del Fiume Tevere e suo fondo Massimo
VI. Profilo d'insieme del
Tevere dal mare all'Osteria delle Capannacce
VII-XVIII. Sezioni trasversali del Fiume Tevere dai Sassi di
S.Giuliano alla sua foce in mare (cat.no.5)
XVIIIa, XVIIIb. Muro di sponda con canale collettore, calata e
Strada Lungo Tevere
XVIIIc. -Altezze della pioggia caduta... [Dicembre 1870 - Gennaio 1871]
-Media durata annuale delle altezze d'acqua del
Tevere all'idrometro di Ripetta 1827-1871
-[Pianta della] Valle del Tevere a Roma Scale 1:50,000
19a-31(sic!) Altezze giornaliere del Fiume Tevere
misurate all'idrometro di Ripetta in Roma al mezzodi` di ciascun giorno dal 1( Gennaio 1822 al 31 Dicembre
1871.
Cat.3
1873 Progetto per il Tevere (Atlante, Tav.I)
Title: Pianta
Topografica di Roma coll'indicazione dell'Alluvione del Decembre 1870 redatta dall'Ing.re Giuseppe
Partini
Published by: Stab. Lit. Ach. Paris, Roma
Lithograph, cm. 120 x 160, Private Collection.
Cat.4
1873 Progetto per il Tevere (Atlante, Tav.IIII)
Title: Pianta del Tevere dall'ingresso in Roma al Ponte della Ferrovia con le linee della sistemazione delle Sponde e dell'Alveo
Published by: Stab. Lit. Ach. Paris, Roma
Lithograph, Scale: 1:2000, Cm. 228 x 76
Private Collection
Cat.5
1873 Progetto per il Tevere (Atlante, Tav.X,XI)
Title: Sezioni trasversali del Fiume Tevere dai Sassi di S.Giuliano alla sua foce in mare (see Cat.no.1)
Published by: Stab. Lit. Ach. Paris, Roma
Lithograph, Cm 77 x 50
Private Collection
Cat.6
1873 PRTitle: Piano Regolatore del 1873
Reproduced from Cuccia 1991, Tav.I
Cat.7
1882 PR
Title: PIANO REGOLATORE E DI AMPLIAMENTTO DELLA CITTA` DI ROMA
approvato dal Consiglio comunale nella seduta del 26 Giugno 1882 in relazione alla legge sul concorso dello Stato nelle opere edilizie nella Capitale del Regno
Photograph of original colored etching, Cm. 120 x 159 (original); 39 x 53 (photograph on display), Scale of original 1:4000
Archivio Capitolino, Rome
The original drawing, kept in the Archivio Capitolino, is a single hand-colored copy of an earlier plan: the 1866 Census map (see ROMA DELINEATA cat.no.23, and cat.3 of this exhibit).
Cat.8
1882-83 PR (dated December 1882)
Title: PIANO REGOLATORE E DI AMPLIAMENTO DELLA CITTA` DI ROMA
Redatto in base al Rapporto della COMMISSIONE COMUNALE ESAMINATRICE dall'Ing. E. Zanotti
Published by: Bruno e Salomone, Rome
Chromolithograph, Cm. 79 x 60, Scale 1:8000
Private Collection
This is a half-scale replica of the original 1882 PR (cat.no.**). It was published three months before the final approval of the master plan.
Cat.9
PRATI I
Title: PIANTA DEL NUOVO QUARTIERE AI PRATI DI CASTELLO
Published by: S.P.Q.R. Ufficio V( Edilita`, Div. IV Piano Regolatore, Cm. 86 x 67, Scale 1:2000
Private Collection
Prati di Castello (literally: Fields of the Castle) refers to the open country around Castel S. Angelo which became Rome's first expansion area outside the urban walls.
Cat.10
PRATI II
Title: ROMA= VEDUTA DEL GRAN QUARTIERE AI PRATI DI CASTELLO In base al Piano Regolatore
Published by: Danesi, Roma
Lithograph, Cm. 75 x 62, Scale of map inset 1:2000
Private Collection
This rather fanciful perspective drawing is a three-dimensional view of the right half of the preceding plan (Cat.no.9). However, unlike the latter, it was an advertisement by a private company interested in selling off parts of two lots next to Castel S.Angelo.
Cat.11
1887 Piano Topograficos
Title: PIANO TOPOGRAFICO DI ROMA
Published by: Comitato di Artiglieria e Genio
Lithograph, Cm. 87 x 64, Scale 1:10,000
Private Collection
While not a Piano Regolatore per se, this map is derived directly from the 1883 PR, and actually supplements it. It is typical of maps of Rome published from 1883 on, most of which incorporate basic PR information. This map is particularly useful because it illustrates the development of the city four years after the master plan was approved, and just before the building stasis that occurred in Rome because of the severe economic crisis lasting from 1887 to 1896. The express purpose of the map is to illustrate all military structures in Rome (Fabbricati Ad Uso Militare) as its Legend indicates, but while doing so it also presents a very accurate image of the contemporary city as a whole.
Cat.12
ROME IN 1885
Title: Rome in 1890
Published by: The Graphic, London
Lithograph by H.E. Tidmarsh and H.W.Brewer, Cm. 76 x 51
Private Collection
This is the only view-map in the exhibit. Its function is to give a 3-dimensional view of Rome after the first burst of rapid development between 1870 and 1888. The title is misleading because internal evidence indicates an earlier date by at least four years. Since Ponte Palatino, which replaced Ponte Rotto in 1886, is not shown, the date of this view must be before that year. The view shows Rome at about the beginning of the economic crisis which stagnated the growth of the city until the mid-1890's. The view is taken as if from a balloon hovering over the Coelian hill. The viewer is looking north, almost enfilading the Via del Corso in the middle distance.
Cat.13
1890 Pianta Generale
Title: PIANTA GENERALE DI ROMA Secondo le ultimi modificazioni od aggiunte del Pno. Regolatore, compresavi ancora la nuova cinta daziaria, quartieri suburbani e perimetro della passeggiata archeologica
Published by: C.Virano, Roma
Chromolithograph, Cm. 82 x 77, Scale 1:10,000
Private Collection
Despite the fact that this is not an official Piano Regolatore, it has all of its characteristics. Indeed, it looks like an update of the 1883 PR with the addition of much of the information from the 1887 Piano Topografico (cat.nos.8&11).
Cat.14
1891 Pianta della Citta`
Title: PIANTA DELLA CITTA` DI ROMA Colle piu` recenti varianti al Piano Regolatore, sesta edizione
Published by: Fratelli Solaro, Roma
Chromolithograph, Cm. 67 x 50, Scale 1:10,000
Private Collection
This is one of many late 19th century tourist maps of the city. Typical is its reliance on, and specific reference to the Piano Regolatore, claiming to include all of the latter's "most recent additions and variations". In spite of this claim, none of the new areas outside the walls are depicted except for Prati. At the lower left of the sheet, an inset map of the "Environs of Rome" (scale 1:75:000) has the same limitation: the city is shaded pink for the same area as the large map. This limitation is easily explained by considering the interests of the tourists for whom it was intended. The monumental city that interested most of Rome's visitors lay within the walls, so everything else is excluded.
Cat.15
1906 PR
Title: S.P.Q.R. PROGETTO DI PIANO REGOLATORE D'AMPLIAMENTO DELLA CITTA` DI ROMA MCMVI
Reproduced from Sanjust di Teulada 1908, p.9
This plan, produced by Rodolfo Bonfiglietti, was presented to the City Council by the Ufficio Tecnico Comunale in 1906. The City Council did not even consider it however (Lugli 1998, p.130). It was used in part by Edmondo Sanjust di Teulada in preparing the Piani Regolatori of 1908 and 1909 (see cat.nos.16&17).
Cat.16
1908 PR
Title: PIANO REGOLATORE DELLA CITTA DI ROMA 1908 Relazione presentata al Consiglio Comunale di Roma dall'autore del progetto Edmondo Sanjust di Teulada, Ingegnere capo del Genio Civile di Milano
Published by: Danesi, Roma, Scale of main map 1:5000 (other scales for subsidiary maps), Sheets of various sizes
Private Collection
In the extensive text accompanying this proposed Piano Regolatore, Sanjust pays homage to an earlier proposal, the 1906 PR by Rodolfo Bonfiglietti, which his plan superseded (p.10 of his text; see cat.no.15). Sanjust notes the retention from this plan of the basic schemes for the Quartieri Nomentano and Appio as well as for expansion of Prati onto the Piazza d'Armi and the great ring road around the extended city. He also acknowledges his debt to the 1883 master plan.
Cat.17
1909 PR
Title: PIANO REGOLATORE E DI AMPLIAMENTO DELLA CITTA` DI ROMA Edizione Ufficiale
Published by: Comune di Roma
Fotozincografia, Scale 1:10,000, Cm. 104 x 96
Private Collection
On the bottom left border of this map are the following two inscriptions which tell us about its preparation:
Rilievo [survey] dell'Istituto Geografico Militare 1907-08.
Studio del Piano Regolatore del Comune di Roma 1908-09.
This is the first master plan to be drawn on a topographic (contour) plan of the city: the earlier ones made no reference to the city's considerable differences in altitude.
Cat.18
1911 Cinquantenario pamphlet
Title: PIANTA TOPOGRAFICA DI ROMA NEL 1870 E NEL 1911Ricordo delle Feste per il Cinquantenario della Proclamazione di ROMA a capitale d'ITALIA 4 Giugno 1911
Published by: Danesi, Roma
Fotolitografia, Scale ~1:35,000
Private Collection
The "Proclamation" referred to in the subtitle of this souvenir pamphlet is actually the declaration of the unification of Italy. In 1861 Rome was still under the Popes, who were to continue to be its rulers until the capture of the city in 1870 by Garibaldi's forces. This pamphlet was published for the 1911 International Fair held in Rome in Valle Giulia and Piazza d'Armi (later to become an expansion of Prati). The two areas, on opposite sides of the Tiber, had been linked in 1910 by the Ponte Risorgimento, built for that purpose.
Cat.19
1931 PR
Title: PIANO REGOLATORE DI ROMA 1931 ANNO IX
Published by: Treves-Treccani-Tuminelli, Milano-Roma
Chromolithograph, Cm. 120 x 115, Scale 1:11,600
Private Collection
The 82-page text is bound together with the twelve sheets of this map.
Cat.20
1962 PRG
(1967 Variant)
Title: PIANO REGOLATORE GENERALE DEL COMUNE DI ROMA
Published by: Comune di Roma, Cm. 140 x 100, Scale 1:50,000
L.Barone Collection
Two factors make it difficult to compare this master plan with its three predecessors. Whereas the earlier scales were fairly close to each other (8,000; 10,000; 11,600), the scale of the 1962 plan has increased by a factor of well over four, to 50,000. The second problem is that we are still too close to the 1962 PRG to make useful conclusions about it: a 1997 variation of that plan (Piano delle Certezze) is still in effect because the 2000 PRG has not yet been approved. The scale factor implies a complete change of scope: the 1962 PRG is a regional plan as opposed to a city plan. Merged into this plan is a 1960 regional study known as the Piano Intercomunale involving 43 towns "coterminal" with greater Rome [Lugli 1998, p.164].
Cat.21
1997 PRG
Title: PIANO DELLE CERTEZZE del Comune di Roma
Published by: La Gazzetta della Capitale, Roma
Cm. 57 x 40, Scale 1:125,000
Private Collection
"Piano delle Certezze [Certainties]" is an interim plan, updating the 1967 variant of the 1962 PR, while awaiting the completion of the 2000 PRG.
Cat.22
2000 PRG
(preliminary plan)
Title: NUOVO PIANO REGOLATORE, Bozza, Gennaio 2000
Published by: La Gazzetta della Capitale, Roma
Cm. 57 x 40, Scale 1:125,000
Private Collection
Still very much in the works, this plan develops the themes of the Piano delle Certezze, adding two more aspects to La Citta` Consolidata and La Cintura del Verde (see cat.no.21). These are La Citta` da Ristrutturare (reconstruction) and La Citta` della Trasformazione (transformation).
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