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In Italy since 1991, Tom has worked in architecture, cultural heritage, environmental and cultural sustainability and digital media. He was founder of the successful non-profit cultural travel association Scala Reale and continues to support culturally and environmentally sustainable travel as a partner in Context, a vibrant group of scholars. From 2002 until 2008 he was President of the American Institute for Roman Culture.
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This blog looks at the city of Rome, past, present and future, through the lens of cultural and environmental sustainability. For over 2700 years Rome has evolved as a laboratory for sustainable urban design, landscape and architecture. While the experiments have not always succeeded, their impact perseveres. Read more on why Rome is sustainable?
The world needs to invest min. 1% of its GDP to overcome the effects of climatic change and the exhaustion of fossil fuel resources. If not, the world economy will expose itself ot the risk of a recession representing between 5 and 20% of its GDP.
- Stern Report, Nicholas Stern, 2006.
If you're in Rome next week, from 8-14 June, please stop by the Tempio di Adriano in Piazza di Pietra where the work of my design students from last fall's Cal Poly Rome Program in Architecture is on display, along with work from other universities and international academies. We'll be showing selections from selected results from a variety of projects:
Rome's Urban Web urban sustainability research
Palimpsest Postcards (history/theory project)
Freehand sketches
Site Analysis and Design Proposals for a Re-Use Center for Rome’s traditional and emergent Green Economy at the Ex-Arsenal by Porta Portese
and the Abruzzo revitalization workshop.
The exhibit opening is Tuesday 8 June at 18:00.
