Land Use, Urban Voids, and Abandoned Areas: New Landscapes for Contemporary Rome.

Launching the celebrations marking the centenary of the McKim, Mead & White Building and organized in collaboration with Roma Capitale, this symposium gathers landscape specialists from the American Academy and their Italian counterparts presenting research and concrete proposals regarding the renewal of abandoned or underused space on the periphery of Rome. In order to improve the existing infrastructure and halt the erosion of agricultural land, landscape design and maintenance offers the key to requalification according to an organic, sustainable system governing new construction in line with economic activity and the requirements of the existing urban fabric.

To celebrate one hundred years of collaboration between the City of Rome and the American Academy in Rome a Protocollo d’intesa will be signed during the symposium by Ignazio Marino, mayor of Rome, and Mark Robbins, president and CEO of the American Academy in Rome.

Participants include: Walter J. Hood, professor of landscape architecture and environmental planning and urban design, University of California, Berkeley; Elizabeth Fain LaBombard, Rome Prize 2013–14 in landscape architecture, American Academy in Rome; Nicholas de Monchaux, Rome Prize 2013–14, design, American Academy in Rome; Alessandra Vinciguerra, Bass Superintendent of Gardens, American Academy in Rome; Antonino Saggio, Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza; Lucina Caravaggi, Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza; Luigi Franciosini, Università degli Studi Roma Tre; Ketty Di Tardo, Alberto Iacovoni, Luca La Torre, Studio ma0; Roma.

In collaboration with Paolo Masini, Assessore allo Sviluppo delle Periferie, Infrastrutture e Manutenzione Urbana, e Flavia Barca, Assessore alla Cultura, Creatività e Promozione Artistica, Roma Capitale.

Simultaneous translation will be available.