What Urban Design Lessons can we learn from Rome?

[@clarkseadon9320]

Very useful & interesting, as Toronto moves to increase density.

[@pietervoogt]

What urban designers usually ignore is the importance of ornament. 'Variety' comes close but it is not the same. Urban designers think in terms of structures and volumes, but ornament is really the bridge between the structures and our feelings. Take any beautiful city like Prague, Rome or Paris, remove the ornament and the city is destroyed. All the other things that seemed to be important, height and width, proportions, traffic, actually are secondary.

[@matthewconstantine5015]

I'm in Rome right now and the city has amazing bones, but this is by far the most car-brained, car choked city I've ever visited. Worse than Manhattan. Worse than Paris. It's like it has all the right ingredients to be an amazing urbanist paradise, but they decided to treat it like a North American, car-centric city. Roads, sidewalks, crosswalks, all jammed with cars. And the streets are so loud. Great infrastructure ruined by cars.

[@skittlesnspace]

Great video!