Unlike the usual politics of exclusion, of which Rome and many contemporary Cities have always been the victims, my project seeks to find a methodology that gives the possibility to citizens living below the poverty line to integrate into the consolidated city. The starting point of my work is an analysis of the problems of the contemporary city, focusing in particular on Rome, which led me to the drafting of a strategy that includes different actions on different scales.

In fact, the proposal is extended from the scale of the city to the scale of individual living unit, in a process whose key words are transformation, connection and duplication.

3.Urban Issue

3.1.The city : From 19th to 21st century

3.2.The Informal as a Theory

4.The Informal city in Rome

4.1.History of Informal city in Rome

4.2.Informal city in Rome today

4.3.Mapping the informal settlements

5.Case studies

5.1.Incremental housing, CBD Belapur.

5.2.Elemental in Iquique.

6.Strategy

6.1.From the city scale to the block scale.

6.2.Transform

6.3.Connect

6.4.Duplicate

7.City scale

7.1.Maps of integration

7.2.New relationship between the city and the water

8.Neighbourhood scale

8.1.History of the neighbourhood

8.2.Informal codex

8.3.Formal codex

8.4.Masterplan codex

8.5.Masterplan

8.6.Street tools

8.7.Stages of construction

9.Block scale

9.1.Incremental growth block

9.2.School

10.Module scale

11.Elements and construction methods

12.Findings

13.References

13.1.Images references

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