1989/01/01 by Alessandro Califano, Califano, Alessandro
Environmental Science · #Geographie #Instrumentarium #Italien #Italy #Stadtplanung #Urban Planning and Valuation #geography #instruments #urban planning
paper · pdf · doi:10.12759/hsr.14.1989.3.89-93
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At a conference held in Italy in spring '87 on standardization and new technologies for information retrieval concerning geographic data and management, an author defined towns as complex systems whose evolu tion cannot be reduced to a linear dynamic. That means that without the help of adequate tools it is impossible to foresee how our decisions and actions may affect them (1). This analysis can be confirmed by the difficulties the municipal govern ment of Rome is having in tackling with its daily managing and program ming problems. The lack of a sufficient knowledge basis is in fact having ever growing negative consequences on the effectiveness of the govern ment's actions, since the burden of its tasks is getting more and more heavy. During the last few years, the Art & Culture Department of the City of Rome whose activities range from those of a Parks & Recreations Department to those pertaining to the management of a widespread loca tion of museums, libraries and areas of archaeological interest has more than doubled its staff trying to cope with the growth of user oriented services. The circulation of information, however, still remains more or less as it used to be at the time when the Department limited its activities in peacefully supervising quietly slumbering museums. Sure enough, some improvements have been attempted in order to aug ment and rationalize the information needed, both, to document the cultu ral historical and art heritage of the Roman environment and to effecti vely plan new services or urban transformations. One of the new tools has been the mapping (1: 10,000) of the whole municipal area (ca. 150,000 hectares) which started in the seventies. Subsequent archival and field research recently allowed to develop a new edition of this cartography, known as ?Carta dell 'Agro Romano? that is now in print and should come out by summer this year. But even so, information given by that tool is not at all integrated with that available from other public sources, as, for