Via Tiburtina -- an interdisciplinary journey through Rome's urban landscape

The main theme: the intact and at the same time constantly changing road.

With its constant motion, Via Tiburtina gives rise to the development of new settlements, which add traffic, buildings and new features to the landscape, the residue of which in turn becomes a part of the cultural heritage and must be incorporated into modern social structures. It was this background that provided the impetus for the Via Tiburtina research project, which was launched in 2003 as a collaboration between the Department of Conservation at the University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute of Classcial Studies in Rome. Today the project has created a genuine interdisciplinary research environment at the institute in Rome, which lays the foundations for urban landscape archaeology as a field of research. But the results and the questions raised by the book will also be of practical use in the modern town planning process, both in Italy and Sweden.

The book Via Tiburtina - Space, Movement and Artefacts in the Urban Landscape has been published by the Swedish Institute in Rome with the support of the Swedish Research Council, and is being distributed by eddy.se AB. The book will be launched on the Swedish market at the Göteborg Book Fair, 24-27 September, and will be launched internationally in Rome in December.

For further information, please contact: Project leader Hans Bjur, professor in Urban Transformations at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg. +46(0)703-08 85 05

At the Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden: Researchers' Marketplace (Forskartorget), Saturday 25 September, 4.55 p.m.: Hans Bjur and Barbro Santillo Frizell talk about the book and the research project.

Eddy's stand, Saturday 25 September, 1.00-4.00 p.m.: Hans Bjur and Barbro Santillo Frizell will be present.