The Fondazione Roma REgeneration has awarded a major urban planning contract to the multidisciplinary team ROMACONTINUA, led by ITS and coordinated by Alessandro Cambi, to develop a long-term vision for Rome through 2050. The team includes urbanists, designers, researchers, and experts in mobility, landscape, innovation, culture, and territorial development, with Artribune among the participants. The project aims to move beyond traditional architectural competitions and theoretical planning exercises, instead creating an integrated strategy that addresses urban regeneration, global attractiveness, and new governance models for the Italian capital.
This initiative matters because it represents the first time in years that Rome's future is being debated not through isolated emergency measures but through a systemic, collaborative strategy involving public and private stakeholders. The project's emphasis on Rome as a living system of relationships between cultural heritage, landscape, ecological networks, infrastructure, urban agriculture, universities, and research signals a shift away from both monumentalist nostalgia and purely technological smart-city rhetoric. With about 80% of Rome's municipal territory consisting of open spaces, agricultural areas, and undeveloped land, the vision reinterprets these "voids" as opportunities rather than problems, potentially setting a new paradigm for urban development in historic cities.