Learning from Rome:

Research Article| September 01 2018 Learning from Rome:Making Sense of Complex Built Environments in the Digital Age Nicola Camerlenghi, Nicola Camerlenghi Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Georg Schelbert Georg Schelbert Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2018) 77 (3): 256–266. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2018.77.3.256 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nicola Camerlenghi, Georg Schelbert; Learning from Rome:Making Sense of Complex Built Environments in the Digital Age. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2018; 77 (3): 256–266. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2018.77.3.256 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search To walk through a city, stroll down a street, and pause in a public square is to be enveloped in history.1 But people typically pass through built environments without considering them as totalities of topography, architecture, and human history—like hiking a landscape without understanding its geology and ecology. Scholars, however, seek to grasp how and why humans have formed and re-formed built environments, preserving, altering, or destroying fabric over time. With the advent of digital, data-driven approaches and increasingly powerful mapping tools, can we better make sense of complex, historically rich built environments? The case of Rome offers an ideal opportunity to address this question. Often compared to a palimpsest, the Eternal City has historical layers that span millennia. Consider, for example, the modern-day Piazza Navona, the proportions and curved northern end of which recall the ancient Stadium of Domitian still partially present underground. The city is a vast... You do not currently have access to this content.