Clough Marinaro, IsabellaFoster, LauraNarain, Reshma2024-11-142024-11-142014Narain, Reshma. "Fascist Urban Planning: Social Tensions and Political Stereotypes in the Eternal City". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2014.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/736Thesis (B.A. in International Affairs, Minor in Art History)--John Cabot University, Fall 2014.This thesis has the aim of understand how the fascist urban plan, which reshaped Rome under Mussolini, prevented classes to integrate, and instead intensified a political m tension between low-working class people and the upper-middle class. This led to social tensions and contrasts due to the malcontent and resentments of the lower classes living in inhuman conditions. Nowadays, the different neighborhoods in Rome are stereotyped as left wing or right wing oriented, due to the fact that popular quarters are usually from the left, and the quarters for the capitalistic-bourgeoisie society is from right. But here in Rome Fascism urban changes, and the conditions in which people lived, added something more to the general political tension. The first chapter analyzes the historical background of Rome since it began the new Italian Capital. The advent of fascism and Mussolini’s dreams of grandeur that led him to start projects for urban and architectural development in Rome, recalling the capital’s glorious past. The second chapter focuses on the conditions of the peripheries and the borgate, populated by the low class, living in terrible conditions. The third chapter comprehends two cases study on Garbatella and Roma Nord, to analyze the conditions of the working class and the upper class.v, 65 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/City planningItalian architectureFascism and architectureFascism in artThesis